Word: spuriousness
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...worth 150,000 francs can be reproduced-so accurately, perhaps, as to pass undetected by experts. It is admitted that it would be difficult for a fake to pass the experts of the Louvre or the Metropolitan, but experts differ among themselves as to what is genuine, what is spurious. The inquiry is raised: "If experts cannot tell the difference, what are we paying for, age or beauty...
...Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their prisoners have gulled the trusting public for over $1,000,000 in crooked currency and over $10,000,000 in spurious stamps, labels and seals in the past year...
...fortnight ago young John Wanamaker II, son of Rodman Wanamaker (President of the New York and Philadelphia Wanamaker stores) was sentenced to six months in a French prison-charged with having signed spurious checks at Deauville...
...that it true in any science and any religion must stand in harmony together. The only warfare is between untrue religion and what the Bible calls "science falsely so called." There is such a thing today, beyond any question. This "science falsely so called" is a shallow and spurious thing. It dogmatists about delusions and builds vast structures of thought on a foundation no more substantial than a tissue of hypotheses, guesses, speculations and assumptions. When half baked scientists, and even preachers who are seeking to convey the impression that they are very "advanced" and who have merely dabbled...
...Fogg Art Museum: "Dutch Pictures, Genuine and Spurious," by Professor W. Martin...