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Word: wronging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regarding the expenditure of millions it is unnecessary to say that this is wrong, for the veriest child can see that this action not only subverts the principles of the primaries, but strikes at the very root of republican institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Burning Disgrace | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...then we all got victory from God except James. He failed.. We prayed on then until Sunday morning. We had only our carbide lamps. I told them I was going to do some writing. I turned to James and said, 'Roy, are you right or are you wrong? I'm going to put down what you say.' "Roy said, 'I don't know what to do.' Then turning his eyes toward Heaven he said, 'put it down I'm saved.' "We held a grand and glorious meeting then and were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Victory | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Klein, Platz | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

Ardent, august, the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science continued their palaverings at Oxford (TIME, Aug. 16). They palavered about: Baldness. Since thyroidal secretions stimulate both brain and hair growth, "it is not far wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir Daniel Hall demonstrated the waste, in food-units, of lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Advancers | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...Grandson Wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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