Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...
...regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...
...faculty together when such sacrifices are demanded; and new professors from the outside are not attracted to Harvard, which is not a healthy condition for any faculty to be in. How long then must chemistry at the University be confined to the narrow, unsuitable, inadequate bounds that restrict and distort its growth...
...tempted to distort this small offense into a sign of the world's decay, and to philosophize thereon--"O tempora! O mores!" But let it suffice to point out why the slight on Widener especially is deplorable. The Library stands as a memorial, the cenotaph of a young scholar and enthusiast of books. By this simple yet significant act, the uncovering of the head, we pay our humble respect to his memory...