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Word: speciousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in some specious language they confuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1925 | See Source »

...courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs, and so on. I believe that all these types exist at Harvard, although it must be remembered that strict classification is specious and that hybrids also are present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophistries? | 2/20/1925 | See Source »

...nothing but specious conjectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/19/1925 | See Source »

...best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike out for new Utopias; but third-party leaders in America need not expect the well-fed and well-flivvered worker to rally round specious shibboleths of discontent. It's only lean and hungry men that Caesar fears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO VOTES TODAY | 11/26/1924 | See Source »

...propose to stultify our position now or to further such injustice and unfairness on the specious plea that it is 'news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Potato | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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