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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight for Better Schools (MARCH OF TIME) is a blue print for grass-roots action to right a widespread U.S. wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Please don't print anything more like that. People might get the wrong idea about us. DORIS PERLMAN (14) Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Driscoll: "Some people characterize bingo as a harmless pastime. I say it is gambling, and has been known to be run at times by gangsters and racketeers." His Democratic opponent, Elmer H. Wene, who is backed by Frank Hague, the dethroned boss of Jersey City, said he saw nothing wrong with bingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Bingo at the Polls | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...once when three stars who proved box-office as slatterns (Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't get things right themselves. By the time almost a hundred readers had caught a single error, Le Figaro's editors were ready to admit that 500 Frenchmen and 12 pollsters could be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Empire | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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