Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victim of political campaigns to elect honest Democrats by proving how dishonest Republicans were...
...That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
...Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward...
...idea was to prevent dishonest motorists from using one set of tags for two cars. Previously a motorist would explain he had lost...
...Thank you," they repeat trade slogans, they make change. One of the newest of Dora's progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This is a change maker which, when presented with legitimate coin of the realm, silently and efficiently performs its functions. If, however, some thrifty and dishonest Briton insults it with a slug, a washer, the robot angry, cries: "Please use good coins only...