Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain number of Wasserman tests result in positive reactions even where syphilis is not present, he explained, and the only way of distinguishing between true and spurious reactions is to test the whole immediate family of the patient, a procedure which was not followed in this survey...
...Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley...
...nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support of his complaints that the other directors shoved him around', deceived him, the public and the President, wasted TVA money, based yardstick rates on spurious or nonexistent cost calculations. But if Oldster Arthur Morgan would cut no capers to supply entertainment, loud Representative Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican from Ironton, Ohio, made up for the deficiency...
Another discovery was a sort of dummy Vitamin A, having a typical vitamin structure but no biological activity. This was labeled "Spurious A." Distilled Vitamin A esters are entirely free of this masquerader. They are also, said Dr. Hickman. "particularly stable to heat or oxidation. They are recommended especially for incorporation into fats and other foods, into chocolate, and into capsules for medicinal use. Distilled A capsules do not cause the unpleasant repeating or aftertaste associated with crude fish oils...
According to Leo Smugai, St. Louis chief of the Secret Service, in 1936 Father Balaban fell in with two Croats from his native Yugoslavia, Michael Markalj, who later began turning out spurious money in Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more...