Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convinced some ulterior motive prompted the publication of The President's Daughter, which, even if true, is infamous. The whole thing is very much regretted by Mr. Harding's family and loyal friends, who cannot conceive of events alleged, knowing him as they...
...Citizens' Committee was founded much later, among intellectual liberals. After their seven-year fight the friends now professed to be "filled with sincere resentment at every attempt to exploit the Sacco-Vanzetti case for selfish political purposes, for personal vanity, for purposes of providing jobs or for any other ulterior purpose...
...paradoxical, due to the literary turmoil which made the public rush to him as to an oasis. They were at once pleased with his agreeable language, which could be enjoyed without too much thinking and which pleased by its limpidity, despite the fact that often it revealed an ulterior meaning of not too reassuring a nature...
...work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual for a 20th century editor, in a big city, to do such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial "we" and its ulterior formality. Most big-city editors would have "played" the streetcar strike to sell their papers, or simply viewed it in irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune and World and Journal...
...ridiculous. They are to go on exhibition before critical educational investigators. When Rutgers decided to retain the mentally-wayward twelve, to nurture them in a class all their own, and to engage her leading professors to teach them economics, history, mathematics and geology, she was manifestly actuated by motives ulterior to one of commiseration, for colleges have never put a premium on failure...