Word: tamper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the election," said he, smiling, "is positive proof that the people will not tolerate a government which threatened to tamper with wage standards or the arbitration system...
Alert, employes of the Department of Agriculture scent after those scamps, the adulterers of food and drug products, rejoice to waylay those who tamper with comestibles or medicaments. In this sense, last week, Acting Secretary Charles Frederick Marvin was pleased to expose his judgments upon 50 violations of the Food and Drugs Act. Walnuts, 29 bags, were condemned because they contained "filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance." An Oklahoma shipment of eggs showed "71.1% inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, spot rots, blood rings and moldy eggs." There was no potency in "Womanette . . . emphatically the Woman...
...Russian scientist's experiment on an ape. . . . One of the most primitive laws of Nature -that kind keep with kind-has been absolutely adhered to by all animal life; one specie of beast or bird or fowl does not mate with another ; it is only man who would tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe that Man sprung from a nobler source than the jungle...
...Railroad. Last week the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway prepared this table of their earnings for the past ten years, and let it speak hopefully to their 37,322 stockholders and ominously to political monkeys who would tamper with railroading...
...forgive you for making important front page announcements about a waiter lighting Coolidge's cigar or on just how that distinguished gentleman eats, but when you begin to tamper with news and twist meanings it's time to prick that bubble about TIME'S "plucking that needle of fact out of a haystack of news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach...