Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since she was an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Manhattan, Helen had known that something was seriously wrong with her heart. Doctors had told her to take it easy; there was nothing much they could do about it then. Her trouble was that the by-pass between the aorta and the main artery to the lungs failed to close some time after birth. The open by-pass is vital to the fetus (fetal blood does not get oxygen from the lungs before birth), but it is harmful in later life because it puts an extra strain on the heart...
...fault or not (he won his share of games before he came to Tech), undergrads demanded that his head roll and that athletes once again be bought, retail or wholesale. A month ago, President Robert E. Doherty told protesting students: "Some of you may have come to the wrong school...
...Maggie & Jiggs only because "I was worried and confused and in a hurry to get out." And even if Maggie & Jiggs did suggest a tip, he insisted that he always checked it against his charts. That was why he had always been right on long-range predictions, though sometimes wrong on short-range ones. Said he: "Stocks always do what they ought to do, but they never do it when they ought...
...Sorry, Wrong Number. A thriller about terror on the telephone, with Barbara Stanwyck on the fatal end of the line (TIME, Sept...
Known in Washington as the "statistical wizard," Bean wrote the book "How to Predict Elections" which was published prior to this year's campaign, and in which he predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not improbable. Election records show that Bean has not been wrong by more than one percent in 12 years of predicting elections...