Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following applications are incorrect: Hennessey's Three starts, American Duet, Fred Stone, Six Idlers, smith Brothers, Brown Derby, Preserved Fish, Literal Translation, Emil Coue, and Quixotic Quintet...
Popular opinion, generally the collective term for vague, often incorrect, knowledge, lumps Arabs and Turks together as one people. The same authoritative source is responsible for the traditional idea that the Arab is an unambitious, emotional nomed good as the inspiration for a "Sheik" and excuse for a Valentino. This popular opinion has prevailed to such an extent that the Arab, like the Turk, has been discounted as a ruler, in the case of Palestine for a recent example, in the belief that he has little aptitude for much beyond tent-life and pillaging...
...worst, no one of the famous "Fathers" can be so misunderstood in the present as he was by his opponents in his own time. History and biography, incorrect, partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted...
Materialistic Theories Incorrect...
...little word "snobs" is getting to be as much misused as "socialist" or "liberal", and probably due to the fact that it has become a regular buffet-epithet in word wrangles. It remains, then, to clear away superfluous and incorrect meaning; and also to exonerate this often maligned college from any notorious connection with the term...