Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience of going to the library desk to take out books assigned for quizzes and hour exams, only to come away empty-handed due to the inadequate supply of copies, is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence. The fault for this state of affairs does not lie so much on the administration of the library, as upon the instructors who are responsible for having the books used by their courses placed upon the shelves...
...voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these changed aspects of the case, the State's prosecutors adopted quick new tactics. They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved and six natives of North Carolina. Against...
...sold to Potiphar, a captain of the guard. In the house of Potiphar he was well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
Yale's move, no different than that of Harvard, has been distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...
Widespread crime, he said, is due to the transformation that contemporary civilization is undergoing, and the solution of the problem seems to lie in the closer study of social pathology...