Word: misleader
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...International Association of Machinists, who is lecturing at the Graduate School of Business Administration for six weeks on "Labor Problems" stated in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In many cases "this misunderstanding is due to the deliberate attempt on the part of certain persons to mislead the public by misinterpreting the purposes of labor organizations. To be sure, their primary aim is to better the working and living conditions of their own members, but just as important an aim is the betterment of people generally. A little investigation of the matter will convince any fair-minded person that...
...primary results "are a fraud upon the people and mislead thousands of well-meaning persons who have not been brought face to face with the facts." An exact description, which the American people, with their "ancient and inbred honesty and integrity," ought to make an obituary, of this costly humbug device to find out nothing. --New York Times...
...Europe east of Germany is full of small nationalities which would be an easy prey to a reconstructed Germany if no league is formed. Now is the ideal time to form a league when the Allies are united. Splendid isolation must not mislead us, every man must think for himself and decide the most important question which the American people have to answer...
...social scheme where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness of birth. At Harvard, as at other places frequented by civilized man, those external appearances are apt to mislead the calmest judgment, and give false value to the characters of some men who seem greater than they are. Yet such superficial judgment is far less common here than it is under a more sophisticated mode of life. It is the reaction from the barbaric simplicity of the judgments...
Gardner's generalship in choosing plays to use at the critical moments was the best that he has ever displayed. The play which scored the touchdown, a cross tackle charge on a delayed pass, was well picked to mislead the Princeton team. But perhaps more encouraging than his skill was the ability shown by the men behind him, as well as by himself, in holding on to the ball. There was not a fumble, whereas Princeton once lost the ball on downs on her five yard line through a fumble...