Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Socialists demand the whole product of labor, and the right to work on wages. It is admitted that the present distribution of wealth is wrong, but municipal control would do nothing to change this evil. Citizens would be forced to invest money drawn from them by taxation in this public venture, without realizing any interest on their investment for several years...
...encouragement in Harvard's game. The hitting, off a second rate pitcher, who lacked both speed and curves, was very weak, and with men on the bases was even worse. Three errors were made, none of which fortunately proved costly, but on the bases everything seemed to go wrong...
...that ancient law was essentially a rule of conduct, which addressed itself to the will and the moral sense of the individual. Legal evolution has been slowly developed from a union of law and right. In Roman times, right often existed without any laws whatever to affect it, and wrong was usually merely the violation of private or individual interest...
...later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled in the mazes of his vocabulary. His efforts to straighten out his words and sentences are very laughable...
...must above all be kept clean in order to accomplish their purpose of teaching healthful manliness. A glance at the newspapers during the league baseball season will show the number of petty disputes which occur between players and umpires, too often when the player knows he is in the wrong. Besides this the professional usually has his own reputation to consider. This depends on the success of the team, and this success he is willing to attain by methods sometimes unsportsmanlike. That college athletics should be dominated by a man not entirely in sympathy with the students seems in theory...