Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vegas, Nev. Boulder Dam celebration. In your issue of Sept. 29 you quote Secretary Wilbur saying, "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer who really started this greatest project of all time, the Hoover Dam." If the Secretary said that he was mistaken. Arthur Powell Davis, then U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation, was the man who started the engineering investigations and made the first report urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing, co-authors of the Swing-Johnson Bill authorizing the construction of Boulder Dam, were...
...However, as for your questions about Hollywood, I am afraid you are a bit mistaken there. It really is nothing but a big country town. We go and call on one another and play games, and that sort of thing. You know the usual things one does when you visit neighbors. And then we go to bed about ten o'clock. As a matter of fact, when I came to New York to make a picture, I just couldn't get used to the late hours and that sort of thing. I was pretty much exhausted...
...will quarrel with his thesis: that unhappiness is widespread through civili-zation?"very largely due to mistaken views of the world, mistaken ethics, mistaken habits of life . . . matters which lie within the power of the individual." Confesses Russell: "I was not born happy. ... In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life. . . . This is due partly . . . to having discovered what were the things that I most desired . . . partly ... to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire...
...Mistaken Notion...
This coal-miner had a mistaken notion of man's true relation to the society of which he is a part. The more advantages one has the greater the duty to use them for the good of others. Alexander Hamilton sincerely believed in the necessity of entrusting the government only to men of education and tradition, men of the so-called aristocracy of those days. Any such conception is of course contrary to our principles of equality, but, says President Hibben, "the spirit of a true aristocracy of service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have...