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Word: wronged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, gotten his start in Washington by means of a card from his college chum. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even to President Hoover. Sugar. Frank were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENS ATTACKS CARNEGIE STATISTICS, LAUDS BINGHAM | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...stadium overshadows the classroom . . . athletics have a dollar sign in front of them. . . . Scholarship has been pushed aside and dwarfed. . . . Menace to our whole American educational system. . . . Not vague theories ... I have personal knowledge . . . something radically and fundamentally wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...CRIMINAL CODE-dynamic exposition of what is wrong with laws and jails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...that's all Ah got...they screw-the real ones on...Ah rockon they need the protection...they fall so easily...? men now are different. They know it all...Why you'd think they'd all had front row seats at the creation'n showed Gawd what was wrong...They're smooth!...And when they dance they sho don't take that Present Ahms attitude of the Ahmy...Anything but!...Ah love Hahvud men...they know so much, an' they look twice as much as they know...'n' when you go ridin' with 'em...well...they don't have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One of Wellesley's Representatives From the South Airs Her Views on Army and Harvard--Scorns Brass Buttons | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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