Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miseries of Human Life, which shows a massive nurse slouched by a fire while her patient struggles in bed. The legend: ". . . humors of a hired Nurse who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort . . . stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat-slops you as you lie with scalding possets [milk & ale] ... falls into a dead sleep the moment before you want her, and then snores you down when you call...
...students is contrary to every concept of a true liberal education. It is to set up as absolute one interpretation of a problem that is at best highly contestable and contested. There has never been an agreement among experts as to whether the essentials of the humane tradition lie in a common broad and necessarily superficial survey, or in the experience and technique that come from exploring all angles of a single problem. Whichever the answer, it is certainly more in the liberal spirit to allow the individual to make his own choice between the Council's proposed test tube...
Demonstration. In The Bronx, while an audience watched a lie detector pick the criminal in a mock theft, a thief stole three coats and two hats...
Once a pampered U.S. had almost believed Hitler: that the democracies were soft, flabby, ineffectual. The poisoned idea had not yet been wholly proved a lie...
...from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head to the fixed post, his feet to the adjustable one; when he turned a wheel on the side, he could stretch his legs and hear the joints crack. The promotion copy claimed that this Procrustean bed would cure "every conceivable condition...