Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...switchboards at the Cambridge exchange the past week, lie principles of great importance to the University. Three possible motives may have actuated them; that they would derive amusement from the procedure; that they would be of service in handling emergency calls, or that they believed the strike to be wrong...
Former members of the Navy in order to receive the Government discharge bonus of $60 should send their discharge to the Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington, D. C., and not to the Zone Finance Officer as was announced. Releases sent to the wrong address will either be returned or forwarded to the proper person. In addition to the release, every application for a bonus should give the date of enlistment, training station, rank, and present address of the applicant...
...that the spirit of revolution is loose. This spirit will either lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily for the better. Nations have gone wrong almost as frequently as they have gone right in the past, and will probably continue to make mistakes in the future...
...purpose of the study of economics in a republic to reduce some-what the likelihood of going wrong in economic affairs, and to increase some-what the likelihood of going right. In an autocracy the people may rely upon their rulers for guidance if they happen to have reliable rulers, but in a republic they have no one to rely upon but them-selves. That furnishes a sufficient reason why the study of economics should interest all serious minded people at all times, and especially in a time like this...
...visionaries are right, even expert visionaries; but the majority opinion of experts is nearly always, if not exactly wrong, at least a few years behind. And reasonably enough; for the more expert an expert is, the less willing to admit that another expert can be more expert than himself. Doubtless the man who first lit a fire with flints had to do it under the ridicule of experts in lighting fire by the method of the fathers, the rubbing of sticks, who knew that they couldn't light a fire with flints and that consequently no one else could...