Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Council discussed a food survey with Dean Bender in December, he said that the University "might order a study" if the Council poll presented solid basis for the feeling that something was wrong. Reynolds, it was learned, told the Council on Wednesday that he did not believe that the purpose of the poll was to indicate undergraduate desire for a survey of the dining halls...
...myself to a position of skepticism towards all philosophical systems and system-builders." He refused to be one of the men & women who try to "remake God and the universe in their own images." His own plea to philosophers: "Why assume that where two philosophies differ one must be wrong? Two pictures of the same object taken from different points can both be true . . ." Philosophy, he contended, was not a science, it was "a way of ... vision." It was that sort of vision that skeptic Morris Cohen tried to give his students...
...News fired him, because "I was saying the right things in the wrong way and doing a lot of drinking," and later he joined the Free Press. As editorial director, Bing masterminded a story on an American Legion parade that won five Free Press reporters the Pulitzer prize. He began a daily column, "Good Morning," composed of topical comment, literary notes and bad puns. Later, when Detroit went pennant-crazy over its 1934 baseball team, he wrote a sports column as "Iffy the Dopester." Loaded with literary allusions and folksy idiom, the "Iffy" columns became a Detroit craze. There were...
They seemed to be wrong. Last week, a different story was making the rounds in Madrid...
...Levy, a brash young securities salesman, took over Blum's in 1934 (he had married a granddaughter of the late Simon Blum, the founder), the company was $26,000 in debt, and facing bankruptcy. The first thing Levy did was phone his customers and ask: "What's wrong with Blum's?" They told him Blum's had been turning out the same old candy since Simon Blum set up shop in 1892, and they were tired...