Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Lively, mulatto brush-maker who had the habit of cutting little girls' throats, was trapped when Detective Parker noted that Lively always used the same type of false tips to mislead police...
...ailing William Z. Foster, onetime Communist candidate for President of the U. S. Though bedded in a Moscow hospital, Comrade Foster contributed a piece to the newsorgan of the Comintern. He urged all U. S. well-wishers of the World Revolution of the World Proletariat to enter a new misleadingly named "Workers' Party" and try to mislead as many workers as possible into thinking it is not identical with the Communist Party...
Federal agents, who queried George after he had returned home and had a nap, were not disposed to accept the Karpis theory, pointed out that Karpis is known to intimates as Ray, not Alvin. It was suggested that a local gang had borrowed Karpis' name to mislead police. Whoever had done the $200,000 job was still free as the week ended...
...have not been satisfied to abbreviate and adapt definitions made originally for adults and for adults of much ability and knowledge. What has a clear and correct meaning to a well-informed adult may confuse and mislead a child. We, therefore, frame our definitions directly to meet the needs of children...
...superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual; for it is apparent that there has become a surfeit of "authoritative" pronouncements on the Far Eastern situation by each visiting professor and casual tourist. By the length of his travels in Russia, Manchukuo and China, one feels that Fleming garnered more than his share...