Word: hoax
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...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...Wood attended a demonstration in Nancy, surreptitiously removed and replaced the prism in a darkened room, succeeded in showing up the rays as a hoax. The scientific excitement about them subsided with extreme rapidity...
Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers and head of the Yard Police, Chief Timothy Leahy of the Cambridge Police, and a student were the victims yesterday of a hoax involving the alleged blackmail of the undergraduate by a girl who signed her name, "Bev, the Clutch...
...martyrdom of Andre Bobola. Because the Russians feared pious demonstrations in Poland, Father Walsh was invited to take the body to Rome by any other route. He took it by way of Odessa, Constantinople and Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bolsheviks might seek to switch bodies and thus hoax the Roman Catholic Church, Father Walsh took pains to pack the body against tampering. His pains were rewarded. The body of Andre Bobola arrived in Rome on All Saints Day 1923, was unpacked in the presence of cardinals, physicians. Vatican officials and Father Walsh. The false screws, the Red Cross sheet which...
...chief devices used for this training is student self-government which is carried a good deal further in giving authority and responsibility to pupils than in the more or less wishy-washy system by the same name by which many a traditional U. S. school tries to hoax its pupils into the belief that they run their own affairs. Today one-fifth of the population of Czechoslovakia, some 2,680,000 students-1,832,000 in primary schools (grades 1 to 5), 428,000 in junior high schools (grades 6 to 9), 126,000 in secondary schools (grades...