Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they have swindled the city out of millions of dollars in taxes; they have purchased legislation almost openly. Even the courts have been in their hire and control. These facts are to be found in official reports, and it is only reasonable to conclude that the actual extent of wrong-doing, if it could be known, would present an appalling record...
...novelists, however, have spread a very wrong impression of French life, by depicting almost exclusively the seamy side of society. In reality, the standard of home and personal morality in France is high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...
Salaries of recent times overpay their recipients. The excuse for them has been that in conducting a large business the right man is cheap at any price and the wrong man dear at any price. Publicity is the best remedy for all evils of corporation management, provided that there is an honest and strenuous public opinion which will reform these evils...
...Right and Wrong Thinking," A. M. Crane...
...boat, which held its lead to the finish. Perkins, the next in order was rowing in much better form than on Tuesday, but was not quite able to overtake Thayer. At the curve by the Stillman infirmary, Weld drew up to and passed the Fairfax crew, but on the wrong side. It then dropped back and attempted to make a fair bump, but in the short distance left was unable to do so. A bump was claimed, however, but the executive committee decided...