Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more than...
...best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete. Listening to the clang and roar of machinery out in the blazing night, skeptics railed at the whole fantastic scene. Many were convinced that there would be small use for the dam's electricity, that only one generator -a little one-would be installed, and that the vast pile would be left, peeping away to itself down through the ages, like a stranded whale with a peanut whistle in its nose...
...working on the back-breaking job of revising the voluminous 19th Century Köchel catalogue which attempted to date Mozart's 600-odd works. He examined hundreds of Mozart scores and letters, discovered some 20 new Mozart compositions in the process, proved an additional dozen spurious. For this and his book, Mozart: His Character, His Work, he is now rated, with French Musicologist Georges de Saint-Foix, as one of the two foremost Mozart authorities in the world...
...odious customs of the gum-chewing public. One of the most disadvantageous changes at Harvard has been the gradual and insidious insertion of Radcliffe into the Harvard scene. It is becoming more evident every day that Harvard will soon be no more than another co-ed school, saturated with spurious and degrading self-identification with the symbols of group solidarity, such as one finds in high schools and state universities. Undoubtedly it has come to the notice of many students that Radcliffe students are now beginning to affect beanies, a symbol of bovine regimentation. A small thing this, yet important...
...Lincoln scholars and plain readers, there was only one thing wrong with Look's snippets of wisdom: Lincoln had never said them. A few were paraphrases of genuine Lincolnisms taken out of context; others were pure invention, and all had been denounced as spurious in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly. By last week, admitted Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, Look was deluged with a "fantastic" flood of mail from indignant readers who had spotted the alleged Lincolnisms for what they were...