Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilson has taken a wrong course in recommending that Congress remove the statutory ban on the manufacture and sale of wine and beer, which is to go into effect in accordance with law on July 1. To be sure, a technical case of some strength can be presented in support of the recommendation, in view of the fact that the war prohibition act to which the President refers was designed "for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products...
Fortunately it is true that as far as ability is concerned there is little wrong with the track team. But ability is not all. Training, especially that of diet, is more essential in the development of point-winners among the track and field representatives than in either of the other two spring athletics. Although the individual athletes have developed steadily throughout the season, there has been but little advance made in arousing that element most necessary to success in all sports, and so difficult to attain in the case of track: team spirit. In this affair of morale, the training...
...Chapman's indictment, although well meant, and aimed to correct a deplorable lack of intellectuality, hit upon the wrong cause, and attacked a Corporation which is now trying to remedy our greatest shortcoming...
...with the University, however unofficial, bears the Harvard stamp. Once, when a man who had registered as a Freshman and left within three days was killed in an unfortunate accident, though this occurred ten years later, the newspapers referred to the incident as that of "Another Harvard Man Gone Wrong...
...they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...