Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Schall wrote an insolent public reply which dodged the President's point: "Your telegram to me bears out the suggestion of the constant effort to mislead and fool the public. ... If it were not for the fact that I see in your request for 'information' an attempt on your part to appear as a victim of your own bureaucracy instead of its chief organizer. I would be inclined to ignore your telegram. . . . You ask me for information concerning what you yourself have done. Are you attempting to secure facts so that you may be in a position to refute...
...Harvard stands a good chance of corning out on top today, especially if Loughlin is in the box. On the other hand, Yale's record this year shouldn't mislead anyone into thinking that the pins are set up. Six victories out of 19 starts is pretty bad, granted, while Mitchell's men have taken nine, tied one in 30 attempts. This sets up an average of 316 against 474 discounting the tie. There are two reasons this can't be counted on; the fact teams rise to unexpected heights in Harvard-Yale game and the fact that the Crimson...
Lest the set-up of your two stories on pacifism in Wednesday morning's paper mislead, I should like to make clear the extent of the Liberal Club's participation in those movements...
...failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo and propaganda?" These, explained General Johnson, were empty words hurled by NRA's detractors to mislead the public. The field of criticism was further narrowed by the redoubtable General as he concluded...
...effort of Erasmus and his contemporaries to place the "literae human-iores" beside the "literae divinae" which claimed a monopoly of medieval erudition. Rabelais, Montaigne and Babbitt are found together, all on the side of the angels: the famous sign over the door of the Abbey of Theleme has mislead those who forget that only the "well born, well instructed, conversing in honest company" were invited. Humanism is not hedonism, which is in fact a potential consequence of that naturalism which humanism challenges. It is not secularism, either. The Renaissance pioneers only demanded a hearing for Cicero; they...