Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CONSCIENCE?Lillian Foster luridly accurate in her portraiture of a girl who went wrong because starving did not appeal to her and because her husband was in jail where she could not appeal...
...appeals to the passions or sympathies of the jury is taking a very dangerous risk of antagonizing them, because, he said, the juries of today are mostly honest men who are seeking after the truth and they feel that any attempt to influence them the other way is wrong...
...been seized upon by such writers. Human nature, they say, is mere animal nature. A school of psychology, which regards all human behavior as mechanistic, gives them substantial backing. Then Freud, with his theory of the evils of suppressed desires, confirms their conviction that one can do no wrong if he follows his instincts. A sort of righteous zeal, therefore, inspires the modern crusade to let truth have its way and show things as they really...
When his opinion was asked concerning the statements of some newspapers in this country that the defeat of the Labor party in England is the death knell of all political parties based on class distinctions, Mr. Williams declared that any such contention is wrong. "The Labor party in England is too strongly entrenched to suffer permanently from this defeat," he said. "I do think, however, that the La Follette Progressive Party in this country will die because it is opposed by the American Federation of Labor...
...genesis of the college "bluff" has been traced to its remote psychological roots in the insistence throughout early education upon a prompt answer of any sort, rather than an honest "I don't know." The current Educational Review points out that a wrong answer counts no more against a student than inability to answer at all. From the beginning students are encouraged to write "something", whether they know anything or not. This dangerous facility is carried into college, and the student, trained unconsciously in this form of intellectual immorality, develops the art of bluffing to its highest degree...