Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in some specious language they confuse...
...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...
...nothing but specious conjectures...
...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...
...propose to stultify our position now or to further such injustice and unfairness on the specious plea that it is 'news...