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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words, of problems in design and in construction. The student works on this and learns not to wander too far from the truth, but he is never told exactly what he must do. He learns by trial and error. Naturally, at the earlier stage of his training, he is wrong most of the time, and for this reason is likely to become pessimistic rather than the reverse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATELIER IS HEART OF HARVARD SYSTEM | 6/5/1926 | See Source »

...Proposals. Mr. Gibson's speech was couched in general terms prudently chosen to convey his meaning without rubbing Continental sensibilities the wrong way. He keynoted the Administration's disarmament policy on four points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...stop all this speechmaking! Let's get on with the dance! . . . I'm too full for utterance . . . but there's one thing I'd like to say. It is a trifle strong; illustrating what is wrong with your country. Before I tell it, any ladies not feeling very strong had best come and have some, er, ginger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Frankau at Large | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...popular sympathy is built up for the chief actors of the drama. The newspaper reader, knowing Mr. Carroll's intimate life as well as he does himself, can not avoid some semblance of pity for his plight. Bathtubs are such an integral part of existence that one rarely associates wrong-doing with their shiny enamel. Indeed young America is apt to consider a tub synonymous with parental urging to a goodly scrubbing. Perjury regarding neck and cars is a common crime often condoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SORDID SYMPHONY | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...many have been the complaints of those who see in these continuous couchings of various individuals upon the Yard grass at all times and sundry one more example of primitivism that curse of curses and anathema of anathemae. Nor or they far from wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY REQUEST | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

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