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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposition is wrong when it believes that its aims are the aims of the whole Nation. We see the mistakes which the Government has made, but we also realize the greatness of its achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Vote of Confidence | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...Running Deer, took the lectern in feathered headdress and hailed the elements in his native tongue. The organ beat a tom-tom. Incense burned. Dr. Guthrie explained: "If you think you can treat religion like a bug and put it under a microscope, you are wrong. Religion can be found alive only in experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Playing Up" | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

CONSCIENCE?A mongrel mixture of good and bad playwriting made persuasive by Lillian Foster's performance of the girl who went wrong when her husband went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Dec. 1, 1924 | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

Gentlemen: Not kicking or anything like that-your average is too high to complain about the slips-but would you try in the future to mark the difference between Boston College and Boston University? You speak (see TIME, Nov. 10, page 28) of "Harvard substitutes chastising Boston College." Wrong, of course. On the day in question, Boston College was thrashing the Haskell Indians 34 to 7 or some such score- the same Indians who last Saturday took a thumping fall put of Brown. You meant Boston University. No correction suggested, merely a note for hereafter. And no publicity for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1924 | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...Frank, like every other Gentleman with a Purpose, mut be humored in his vagaries, but above all, he must not be laughed at. Every man is entitled to his opinion, however ridiculous. But as to a sense of humor giving poise to an individual, there Mr. Frank is wrong. Everyone knows that poise can come only from an exclusive finishing school, or from lots of blue blood. The simple day-laborer, laughing heartily when his fellow-workman falls into the mortar box, is possessed of no poise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE WHO LAUGHS LAST | 11/21/1924 | See Source »

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