Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need for limiting the time a pair might hold a court. But now when someone, with only a short time to spare, gets dressed and then finds a line of hopeful players filling the alley behind the courts he is quite naturally impressed with the idea that something is wrong somewhere...
...objected that a sufficient number of men could not be persuaded to attend. To this we answer that if such a meeting could not attract as large an audience as treat which attends a football raily there is something radically wrong with Harvard--viewed as an institution of learning at least...
...problem it not solved; it never is. Nevertheless it is a good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater,--without telling him the sad past. Obviously this is the best way to court an embarrassing future. It does not fail; she is arrested in New York after ten years have gone by Her husband is directing his energies...
...What is wrong with this picture?" Why are we involuntarily confronted by visions of the medical adviser's office jammed with hopeful invalids waiting for the doctor's certificate that they cannot keep from sneezing. We come to college voluntarily and pay from fifty cents to a dollar, according to the current tuition rate, for an orchestra seat at a lecture. Yet why, if the office were to back the suggested notice by a promise to excuse all absences forced by consideration of the "health and enjoyment of others," why would the professors find themselves lecturing to empty halls...
...Times, concerning the truthful teaching of History--particularly that of the American Revolution. Charles Cran Miller, of fame unknown to "Who's Who", began the skirmish by attacking elementary text-books on the ground that they destroy patriotism. These books present the American position as partly right and partly wrong. According to Mr. Miller, we ought to regard the American leaders as saints and the English ministry and king as demons. The next week the author of one of the text-books attacked answered Mr. Miller in a sensible, restrained way. Truth, he said, must be placed above all things...