Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arkansas. A Los Angeles judge had the pleasure of sentencing James S. ("Fiddlin' Jim") Davidson, U. S. postmaster of Fallsville, Ark., for traveling about the country passing $80,000 worth of spurious money orders. Arkansans, however, paid little heed to the event. "Fiddlin' Jim's" peculations are almost beneath notice in the state that repeatedly re-elects legless Commissioner of State Lands, Highways and Improvements Herbert R. Wilson, a master of high and hidden finance...
...kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
...firm still exports a small quantity of medicinal champagne to the U. S.; and we are obliged to meet the competition of spurious liquids which never were champagne at any stage of their dilution...
...clock today, Mrs. S. K. Langer will be the chief speaker at a discussion meeting of the University Philosophical Club. The topic, as announced by the Philosophy Department, is "Spurious Problems in Philosophy." The meeting will be held in Emerson 23 and is open to all members of the University...
...Harvard Philosophical Club will meet at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon in Emerson 28. The meeting will be devoted to discussion led by Mrs. S. K. Langer, on "Spurious Problems in Philosophy...