Word: spuriousness
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...college diploma, ask for a license from that State, which would be issued perfunctorily. Soon they would return to Illinois, show the license from the neighboring State; demand a complementary one from Illinois. This method, while devious, enabled them to obtain legitimate licenses difficult to trace to their spurious source...
...forged diplomas were from many a college besides Chicago and Northwestern, to weed out all quacks would be almost impossible. Nevertheless, Diver Blair was sent on another search, at a certain spot on the bottom of Chicago's drainage canal, where the forgers confessed having thrown their spurious engraving plates...
...Church and prevailing custom, to the extent of publicly dissecting a man who had been hanged. But the fascination of science waned. He divided his time between the hospital and the printing press. "At the Sign of the Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said...
...letters were the fabrication of these two young women, Sarah Morrison, the sister of Margaret, must have realized that they were spurious, because she could not help knowing the non-existence of Sally Calhoun and Matilda Cameron. Sarah Morrison, therefore, would hardly have allowed her husband, Frederick Hirth, the Union soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss...
...letters were the fabrication of these two young women, Sarah Morrison, the sister of Margaret, must have realized that they were spurious, because she could not help knowing the non-existence of Sally Calhoun and Matilda Cameron. Sarah Morrison, therefore, would hardly have allowed her husband, Frederick Hirth, the Union soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss...