Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the ringing in its head, the city's reaction was: "It's time. God knows there's enough wrong with the town...
...gigantic mistake: its employment index has been cockeyed for at least two years. In its last estimate, made in June, the bureau had put U.S. employment (nonagricultural) at 43,733,000, which, it now turns out, was nearly 1,000,000 too high. In 1948, BLS had been wrong...
...index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom, and was already on a five-year climb destined to total 153.18 points...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...
...this reason, the police will also tag cars during the day that are parked on the wrong side of streets allowing parking on only one side. But police will be "doubly hard" on night parking. Captain McCarthy promised...