Word: contradicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from Oct. 13-Nov. 15, as compared to 53 last year...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...
...bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was called. Henry had had no illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields's grade...
Rival publications, and different statisticians for the same publication, flatly contradict one another's figures in a way that puzzles the man who buys space. And so, since 1923, Editor & Publisher, journalism's trade weekly, has annually sought to furnish the most nearly accurate advertising lineage figures for a host of U. S. and Canadian newspapers, and these figures are always eagerly awaited...
...subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries...