Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ostriches do not hide their heads to shield their bodies. That is an old fable, that learned Dr. Noyes surely knows. And for him to use the fable to belittle anti-evolutionists is foul logic. It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness...
...worce than this is the almost total absence of ventilation in the Reading Room. The air is at all times atrociously foul. One is fairly stifled by the carbon dioxide, body odors, and lack of oxygen. It is only after some minutes that one is able to breathe in comfort; and then, almost before one realizes it, the CO2 has begun to act. It makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses...
...estimated that 50,000 of them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination...
...long dash by Clark followed by a true hard shot was the only scoring in the fifth chukker and the teams entered the sixth frame deadlocked, 5-5. The 1931 mallet-wielders gained the lead on a foul by Walker, who immediately turned the tables on them by a closeup shot, enabling the Artillery team to come out on the long end of the score...
Four months ago (TIME, June 20) Soviet Minister Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov was felled in a Warsaw railway station by the foul hand of a boy assassin. Due note of that fact was emphasized by the arrival of M. Bogomolov, who symbolizes a return of normal Russo-Polish relations, after a period of horror struck deep in Russia by political and revengeful executions, and in Poland by a period of intense excitement uncalmed by the sentence of the aforesaid boy assassin to life imprisonment with a recommendation by the Court that this be commuted to 15 years...