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...course, the announcement amounts to a humiliating surrender for the President and the Administration and would never have been made except to coyer retreat; but it is artfully devised to mislead the country and to deny the taxpayer the full benefit of relief to which he is entitled...
...expected of bacteriophagy. At the very end of his treatise, Dr. d'Herelle warns: "In the prophylactic and therapeutic use of the bacteriophage there is a vast field for commercial exploitation. This has already begun. I cannot witness it without apprehension. . . . Too often, commercial firms mislead both physicians and the public by clever quotations (clever in the sense that they avoid conflict with the law) tending to make it appear that such and such a scientist supervises their products, or even controls them. I now declare that I am, and will always remain, a stranger to all 'commercial...
...ancient well-wisher of the CRIMSON would like to attribute this neglect rather to excess of enthusiasm and lack of thought, than to any deliberate attempt to confuse and mislead your readers. Perhaps it is not yet too late to rectify your omission. I trust that this letter, at least, may find a place in your paper. Very sincerely yours, Garrett Mattingly...
...could point to mistakes without insinuating that it is trying to mislead, but that it is subject to ordinary human limitations. Permit me to call attention to a rather peculiar pronunciation of the name of Congressman O. J. Kvale as given in TIME, March 29, p. 10. Unless some transformation has taken place since coming to Washington, I think the gentleman would quite readily and naturally answer to the name, if pronounced Qua'-le. I have known him for so many years, boy and man, that I think I can vouch for the accuracy of this...
They were not the sort of knavish sprites that frighten housewives, pinch old men sleeping, and mislead night-wanderers. No, they were kindly imps. "Every one of the Brownies does good," once said Palmer Cox, "without any thought of reward. Every one of my Brownie books is packed with morals, but I don't think that the children who read them have the least idea that they're there." If the children had, the Brownie books might not have become as they did, standbys in every household...