Word: falsehoods
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...form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry Ford. The last essay wanders a bit, forecasting an exact psychology that will sweep falsehood and pretense from the earth, leaving little that is so interesting as a brilliant, plagiaristic Earl...
...street corner where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing at all, so muddled were truth and falsehood in his clouded brain. He charged that the San Francisco police had coached him to identify Mooney and Billings as the bombers, that Charles M. Fickert, the prosecuting attorney, had influenced his testimony, had promised him a "large slice" of the $17,500 reward in return for damning evidence...
...assert themselves. . . . No one who watched the negotiations of the London Naval Conference can have failed to see how much they were conducted in a war atmosphere, how seldom any reference was made to great international instruments for peace. . . . Important leaders of opinion are again preaching that hoary-headed falsehood: 'If you want Peace you must prepare...
...Bushnell devolved the unsavory task of pressing the charges and securing the conviction; in performing his public duty he had no choice. His plea yesterday for revocation of the charges was naturally based on his and the community's indignation against the Watch and Ward Society's use of falsehood and deception in securing the evidence against Mr. Delacey...
...united Germany above home, party, creed, etc." The phrase does not mean, never did mean "Germany above every other nation." Wrote Author Ponsonby, M. P., in Falsehood in Wartime: "There must have been many people who knew sufficient German to understand the meaning of the phrase but no protest was made at the mistranslation which was habitually used to illustrate Germany's aggressive imperialist ambitions...