Word: astray
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...With inexorable certainty the inherent law of Fate will give power into our hands! Therefore do not allow yourselves to be provoked, incited and led astray -he who fails in the last testing days is unworthy to witness the victory...
...free milk bar. Some hurried; some loitered like old boys. Whatever their manner now these are the men who will make Harvard and they may well realize that fact. It seems not amiss to consider Harvard as a product, like clothing, for example. And it appears no further astray to give those men who are associated with the product the appellation, Harvard men, as the designation, clothiers, is applied to those who make clothing. Harvard men have ever worn their own intellectual clothing and have been remarkable in the world...
...wife is cold and whose mother lives with them. He drinks liquor in startling quantities after Lady Macbeth gets him started. For the murder he is given a hammer instead of a sash-weight. Author Matthews' verdict on the Snyder-Gray case is: Judd Gray not guilty-led astray...
Last week, thin, scant-haired; Dr. Uhrbrock made known the guesses of his 603 scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...
...seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties in Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before I came here this time that I was greatly interested to see what truth there...