Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George R. Price, a University of Minnesota medical research associate, in Science, journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The findings . . . are dependent on clerical and statistical errors and unintentional use of sensory clues, and . . . all extrachance results not so explicable are dependent on deliberate fraud or mildly abnormal mental conditions...
Confidence Man. In El Paso, charged with federal check fraud, George Lewis Branzell helpfully suggested that U.S. Commissioner Henry Clifton hold up arraignment until all the bum checks he passed had bounced...
...feet and into the milking pail. By pressing the bottle with his forearms as he leaned forward to strip Marie, the milker could send squirts of cream into his milking pail. With this evidence in hand, the gendarmes bustled Kramer off to jail on the charge of fraud, and the dairymen of Normandy, with the solemnity demanded of the occasion, took steps to drop the name and claim to fame of Marie the famous milker from the Normandy herd book...
...answer in the negative except by flat-earth men and extreme skeptics. Comes at last the big moment when the well-quizzed reader reaches the pages containing his analysis ("Yourself as you really are") and settles down to a tasty feast of ham-and-egoism. "You are a fraud-a clever, charming, amusing fraud"; "You may be regarded ... as highly intelligent, yet your intelligence is curiously limited, sterile, and stunted"; "In many respects you are not a bad woman"; "You are a bit like a character out of a Chekhov play...
...asked an end to the bull-baiting. "It seems that Mr. Avery is not in a position today to conduct this meeting," he said. "I will appreciate it if you will accept Mr. Barr as chairman." Then, in an aside, Wolfson told reporters: "This is the greatest corporate fraud ever perpetrated...