Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to have been said; yet we will venture this: A few years ago commencement speakers were telling their audiences of the bright future that awaited them. This year they are either openly admitting that the prospect is dark or are trying to explain why the world has gone wrong. This year few speakers have wished that they were young men just beginning -- they seem on the other hand to be glad that they can so soon step aside...
...form and sent it down to a 4-2 defeat. Then came the worst set-back of the year for the New Haven men, for they ran up against the Holy Cross outfit when it was feeling about its best, and, failing to find Tunney, came out at the wrong end of a 14-1 tally...
...that are being propagated and they think that by shutting their own ears and the mouths of others the danger can be escaped. They remind one of the people in Kingsley's Water Babies, who walked backwards saying "Don't tell us!" But surely the way to overcome a wrong opinion is not to silence it, but to show its falsity...
Within a few days I have been reading Professor Hart's selection of Lincoln's speeches and letters. In running through them one is impressed by the careful limitation he constantly places upon the principles that he believed most intensely. He thought slavery morally wrong, but while unflinchingly opposed to its extension to the territories he would not countenance attacks upon it in the State because he was of opinion that there it was protected by the Constitution. The principle that slavery being wrong should be opposed was limited by another principle that the Constitution and laws should be upheld...
...connection with war, until now--and that the German mind, when it sees itself defeated, invariably turns to self-palliation and vague excuses. Perhaps the difference is one of inborn moral sense; the Germans may never be able to realize that the submarine campaign, as conducted, was wrong. Indeed, Neumann's "prosecutor" himself admitted that while it would be contrary to the Hague Treaty to sink a hospital ship carrying men from a naval engagement, on the other hand an attack upon the same ship loaded with troops wounded in land service, would constitute no violation of international agreements...