Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole attitude toward the world and its betterment is based on an assumption that finds no least support in the Great Book of the Past? Does it not make plain that the "conservative" so far as he is consistent and lives up to his professions is fatally in the wrong? The so-called "radical" is also almost always wrong, for no one can foresee the future. But he works on a right assumption--namely, that the future has so far always proved different from the past and that it will continue to do so. Some of us, indeed, see that...
...first sight to greet Mr. Berlin or anyone else straying under the roof of Hemenway, is the aesthetic class. Perhaps the term "aesthetic" is misleading. Certainly nothing light and airy is in the minds of the performers gravely gravitating through the rhythmic movements of the exercise. Right hands become wrong hands. Feet become hay-feet, straw-feet, then lead feet. In fact the limbs of budding lawyers and scientists alike feel the call of the wild...
...Youth Movement is a spontaneous manifestation of an old forgotten spirit. It is endeavoring to weave itself into the web of human society and to change some of its aims and ideals. Whether its members are right or wrong in their sentiments is not the prime consideration. The thing of most importance is that under the stimulating influences of the movement the young people are being led to take an interest in affairs of the day in a way which compares very favorably with the local college island on which the American student lives...
...Greeks, it is reported, went to their death like martyrs. They had done no wrong greater than other political conspirators of the past and present, and, together with the rest of the civilized world outside of Greece, they regarded their execution as a great in-justice. They had plotted to precipitate Greece in the Great War on the side of the Turks and the Germans. They had brought about Constantine's return and had so managed the war against Turkey that the Greek armies suffered a complete collapse. But other Greek armies have collapsed, ever since the day when Lord...
Nevertheless the Thanksgiving pardons in Illinois are to be condemned, not because they were wrong in principle, but because they followed no principle save that of political expediency. Undoubtedly it is better to have Mr. Lloyd and his friends free to move their soap-boxes from corner to corner unchecked, than to keep them under lock and key. Highly volatile gases are far more dangerous confined than when allowed plenty of room for expansion. But when the Governor of a state overrides a law and frees prisoners at the very beginning of their sentences in the face of a decision...