Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doctors disagree on only two subjects: what is wrong with a patient and what cured a patient. The franc, which a month ago seemed beyond medical aid, is now in the convalescent ward. The patient shows a healthy appetite and touched 6.06 cents-the highest point since July...
...ethics, the principles and the conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...
Although the occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...
...witnesses agreed as to the details of the riot or even as to the nature of the missile. And the "skill" shown by the jury in sifting the evidence of course only made matters worse by introducing technicalities into a mere case of right and wrong...
...will not mar this occasion by any argument, explanatory or defensive, in regard to the matter that has clouded my days and shadowed my nights. I come neither asking forgiveness nor bowed down with shame; but proudly to proclaim to you that I have done no wrong nor aught that merits rebuke from you, my dearest friends...