Word: spuriousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems that the now infamous article entitled "Hayes Bickford" has elicited many responses. In keeping with the noncommittal, ambiguous style of the recent CRIMSON articles on the integration issue, both the bigot and "latent liberals" of the community have been satisfied. Congratulations on your spurious success...
...radio frequency lines are not infallible. A certain amount of what Andrew terms "spurious radiation" always exists. In the case of WHRB's system, this rarely extends more than 150 feet from the nearest line. Occasionally, however, it will be more--even considerably more...
Technically, it is virtually impossible to eliminate such spurious radiation from WHRB's present system. And the moment they occur the station, normally free from FCC control, automatically violates federal law by broadcasting without a license. So far, WHRB has managed to keep within the confines of the University well enough to satisfy the FCC. But there is always the chance that some day the Commission will make the station shut down, as it has already done with Wellesley's and a number of other college stations throughout the country...
...only, he said, because the chief was in cahoots with Rack eteer Elkins. Cried District Attorney Langley, a Democrat elected in 1954 with strong Teamsters' support: "Reports that I have plotted with the Teamsters are a pack of lies." He charged that the tapes were doctored and spurious, accused Racketeer Elkins of trying to blackmail him with them...
...Power Elite is written in a kind of sociological mumbo jumbo that should discourage all but other sociologists. It is dull, repetitious, and gives equal weight to both sound and spurious evidence. Its underlying tone is one of resentment, and because it offers no suggestion as to how the bogeymen in Mills's belfry may be exorcised, it is intellectually irresponsible. Still it ought to be read, if only for its half truths. It will surely be read with great glee by anti-Americans everywhere. But the average U.S. reader is apt to emerge from this nightmare-shored...