Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Gavrilo Princip had crossed the quay and regained his courage. The first car turned the corner right in front of him. The Archduke's car started to turn also. General Potiorek called: "That's the wrong way. Drive straight down the Appel Quay." The driver put on the brakes. The car came to a full stop in front of Princip...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...
...unscathed. Many New Yorkers, safe in their towering apartment buildings, canyon-like streets and skyscrapers, did not even know a hurricane was passing. Last week, however, Meteorologist Charles Franklin Brooks, of Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, pointed out that if a future hurricane happened to hit Manhattan just wrong, not all the brick and asphalt in the city could prevent a terrible disaster...
Biologist Conklin remarks that Schleiden's theory of cell development was cockeyed in major respects, and he had an unpleasantly cavalier way of dealing with contemporaries and predecessors, some of whom were right where he was wrong. Schwann took over some of Schleiden's views and from error compounded further error...
...Conklin stuck steadfastly to Darwinian natural selection (with the addition of mutations to work on), and still does after 55 years. Others who once thought he was wrong now admit he was right. His good friend, Caltech's famed Thomas Hunt Morgan, once an extreme proponent of the mutation theory, now admits that evolution cannot work without natural selection. But Conklin has had to take cracks in return from his friend Morgan. Remembering Conklin's famous mollusc studies, when the first Conklin daughter was born, Dr. Morgan suggested naming her Crepidula...