Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to inform you that one of the quotations regarding deductions I learned from a Federal man is wrong...
...aggressor nations" speech at Chicago in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt has openly led the party which believes not only that the totalitarian dictators deny the democratic U. S. way of life but that they threaten it, that something must be done to curb them. Doing something about things that look wrong to him is a prime characteristic of Franklin Roosevelt and, fortified by the Warm Springs spirit, the tougher the going gets the better he likes...
When Miss Lillie was asked to compare English with American sense of humor, she said of the English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
Dorgan expressed pity for Hicks for having "got off on the wrong slant in spite of his ancestry of 300 years," and said he would send the petition when completed to the University of Moscow, adding, "that's his place over there...
...teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his retention on the basis of his work this year. Unfortunately for the head-in-sand opponents of everything Mr. Hicks stand for, the Committee of Eight published its report on tenure and appointment at the wrong time. Here is the definite statement that a university should not merely tolerate "heretics" among its professors but should deliberately seek representation for unorthodox, minority views. "Harvard would not be true to its ideals or to its role if its appointment policy should exclude from its ranks every advocate...