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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting: "I'm an egg! Watch me scramble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...American idea of education is all wrong, as I and Upton Sinclair have believed from the first. Not being a tame conformist, I have arrived two weeks behind the herd to prove my theory at this university of monuments and mudholes here in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/6/1923 | See Source »

...typographical error the CRIMSON announced yesterday that upperclassmen in History 1 would be required to attend the Friday meeting, at which the selection of a field of concentration will be discussed. The announcement was wrong and upperclassmen will not be required to attend on that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting for Freshmen Only | 4/4/1923 | See Source »

...importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly out of sight, so far as a particular individual is concerned, and largely out of mind, except when things go wrong. It easily gets beyond control. The methods by which it may be, or at least has been, controlled, and by which the power necessary to control it may be made to serve instead of exploiting mankind, form the substance of the science of government...

Author: By Arthur NORMAN Holcombe ., | Title: SAYS GOVERNMENT IS SCIENCE OF LIFE | 3/28/1923 | See Source »

...himself, is in a " muddle." It is lost and groping its way in its search for new forms, and this naturally troubles such conservatives as Chesterton. The followers of Michael Angelo (individualists, like Picasso) represented a definite decline in Italian art. Are the imitators of Picasso also on the wrong tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Are Artists Going Mad? | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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