Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures unless there was a significant change. On election eve, he had found none, said: "I stand by my prediction. Mr. Dewey is in." But Roper, who had predicted the three previous presidential elections within .2 to 1.2% of accuracy, had no alibis. Said he: "How did we go wrong? I frankly do not know...
...Truman's 42%). Fifty Washington correspondents, most of them bureau chiefs, had unanimously predicted a Dewey victory in a Newsweek poll. On election night the Chicago Tribune headlined: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In a pre-election photograph, LIFE had unreservedly captioned Dewey "The next President." TIME was just as wrong as everybody else...
...productive. Better transportation brought surplus food from afar to feed the hungry industrial cities. There were local famines, as there had always been, but the world never ran out of food. The gloomy Malthus, who had underestimated both nature's resources and man's resourcefulness, had been wrong...
Played-Out Planet? The Neo-Malthusians admit that he was wrong. But they claim that new and frightening threats have developed recently. The present-day world, they say, has no fresh lands (or almost none) to cultivate. Its old lands, "plundered" by reckless exploitation, are losing fertility as their "irreplaceable topsoil" washes down the rivers. Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross...
...Road to Survival. Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about soil can be winnowed. All of these ideas are wrong, and the scientists knock them down easily...