Word: mis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead...
...number of lady members of the Riverside Tennis Club of Hoboken, N. J., have organized a foot-ball (spelled or mis-spelled "foot-boll") team to be composed entirely of ladies...
...insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer, editor of P. I. from 1908 until his death in 1933, a model statute, making untrue or misleading advertising a mis demeanor, was drawn up in 1911. Today the model is law in 25 States...
...letter and the demand came as a result of a mis-understanding between members of the Leverett House Committee and an informal group of House representatives. The Rabbit men, believing that an agreement had been reached whereby each was to have only one dance during the football season, cancelled plans for a second dance the night after the Army game, and decided to take a loss of some $150, since the orchestra had already been signed...
...privilege, and honesty over corruption, this statement focuses serious attention on the District Attorney's office, for it is there that the enforcement of all laws in the City begins. And it is there, where a lone Tammany stalwart has held out during the last four years, that Tammany mis-government has traditionally reigned supreme...