Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published the facts, said: "We hope this information will be spread throughout the maligned Middle West. If any college man there is approached by an agent of this public-spirited concern, he may know that endorsements alleged to have been written by Yale, Harvard or Princeton undergraduates are necessarily specious-that, by the admission of the agent himself, they must be either forged or perjured." In Chicago last week Standard Encyclopedia Corp., which has been in business since 1909, denied that it had made any extraordinary offers, suggested that its salesmen had perhaps "overstepped themselves" in describing the research bureau...
...Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning their daily life. . . . "We are still fighting this war of independence...
...inquiry into the lower courts, oldest of his three current inquisitions, suddenly bore more fruit after a hiatus of several weeks. Policeman Richard B. Ganly, onetime vice squad member, was sentenced to from four to eight years in Sing Sing for testifying falsely against a woman in a specious prostitution case. Policeman Ganly is the second vice squad man to .be sentenced from testimony dug up by the Seabury investigation. His counsel pleaded that he be sent to a Federal penitentiary rather than to the State's prison. Two months ago Policeman Ganly, having been dismissed from the police...
...pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth he is forced to admit his ignorance. He never for a moment held the specious hope that this sad trifle would tone up his column. At any rate he is going to hear about Pasteur...
...specific cause of the apathy toward debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...