Word: wronged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agree with this opinion in the main and yet feel that it is slightly wrong in its implications, dangerously wrong in the time and place of its statement. One may feel at first that the opinion finds some support in the very number of the magazine in which it appears. In both the prose and the verse of this number there is excellent artifice, ingenious technical device, promising experimentation. But after all, this is as it should be. The presence of these things even in overflowing measure does not argue a necessary absence of sincerity. For, besides the two sorts...
...public expressions of opinion the majority of men in the University voted against the present administration last November. During the past few months this same majority has criticized the re-elected President upon his slow manner of solving our international difficulties. Whether his methods have been right or wrong can only be properly judged by the next generation. We cannot help realizing that the obstacles in his path have been unprecedented in size and seriousness. The time has come for this majority to forget their preferences of last year and show themselves as whole-hearted supporters of the nation...
...complicated organization of a battleship must be an intensively trained man. It has been said that the average line officer of the Navy must know all that the officer of corresponding grade in the army knows, plus his own specialized technical knowledge. That is a statement not far wrong. The modern sea-fighter is a "soldier and sailor...
...Roger I. Lee '02, professor of hygiene, in an article in the Alumni Bulletin affirms that the athletic heart is normal and that the usual claim that the athlete's heart is enlarged because of his activities is wrong. He draws his conclusions from examinations made upon more than 2,000 students, including the members of the University crew. Only 20 per cent. of this total were found to have abnormal hearts and there were very few athletes among them...
...country right or wrong, but still my country." W. W. HOFFMAN...