Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felon ; fraud ; frozen snake ; gambler ; henchman of a notorious character ; humbug ; hypocrite ; impending insanity ; impostor...
...Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin," appearing in 1896, was the work which won him his first recognition. For the next few years he was busy with translations and commentaries principally on Livy Dr. Conway was one of the first scholars to appreciate the fraud upon the announcement last year that several missing books of Livy had been discovered in northern Italy...
...TIME, Dec. 14, MISCELLANY), the "liger" and "tigon" (lion and tiger hybrids). This factor bears directly upon such hybrids' commercial value. Great would be the fortune of that showman who could advertise an "eleraffe" or "rhinocerdile," whether the animal was sterile or not. Greater would be that showman's fraud, however. It is impossible to cross animals not of the same order or family...
...Rhinelander could bring action for annulment, charging fraud. This course had already been adopted when he (Judge Mills) was called into the case; but it was also the course which he himself would have recommended as "the only practicable, safe and proper...
...Transportation act will work. We are to see whether this is a consistent piece of legislation intended to strike midway between doing nothing and Government ownership. It is of almost tragic importance in that it is the first attempt to try out a national policy, and the suggestion of fraud is most unfortunate. It will have no effect here, but it goes spawning through the records and hatches new troubles and difficulties in out of the way places...