Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there any valid reason why they should not. There can be little benefit to the man who has not done a reasonable amount of work during the semester, for certainly he cannot learn an entire half-course in four hours. If he can there is something wrong with the course, or with the examination. But for those who have regularly followed daily assignments, tutoring offers a perfectly legitimate way of saving time, scarce enough during the examination period, which may be devoted to subjects of greater interest, or of greater importance in a field of concentration. Those professors who most...
Common Conception is Wrong...
...without its moments of humor. One of the most revered traditions of these United States, and one that stands aloof from lobbyist mud slinging and presidential scandals, is the belief that the Supreme Court, like older and wiser vestiges of autocracy, can do no wrong. The citizens of tomorrow, the backbone around which the nation will be built, have shared this belief in full innocence of the ways of men and morals. When the Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most...
...thought of another war too appalling to consider; and yet seventy two cents out of every dollar paid in taxes in this country is diverted from productive channels to provide for just such an event or to pay for a similar one in the past. That there is something wrong with a world, supposedly civilized, which spends its energies in such a primitive manner is becoming obvious to everyone, even peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them...
...that broke the camel's back, causing intervention--Haiti was without money. Always broke, she was at a continuous disadvantage in negotiating loans, and even her most astute diplomats had neither the experience nor the knowledge to cope with the shrewd European bankers. Thus she came out at the wrong end of nearly every bargain...