Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...sure, we have no courses labelled "To-day's News 6a hf," nor even "Current Events 32b hf." But this fact should not mislead. Not only in Sociology and Economics but in practically all departments are courses which the teacher makes fairly brim over with the spirit of true "modernity" and human interest. And, after all, Paleontology and Sanscrit with this spirit are less "past" than "Aeroplaning Q" without...
...entitled to nothing that he does not earn by earnest, honest, efficient work. President Taft is not entitled to renomination. Those who charge Roosevelt with disloyalty are ignorant of the facts or wish to mislead the people. Roosevelt was never truer to his ideals and duties as a citizen than when he accepted the call to leadership in this struggle for political progress...