Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported, known respectively as "Getting the Basket" and "Putting in the Kitchen." In the first a large round basket is filled with earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks. In the second, the victim is roped round the middle, hauled to the roof rafters of a hut while a fire is lighted beneath him on which handfuls of pepper have been thrown...
...first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong thereafter and turned back to safety at Norfolk...
...much to say about the future of civilization: "More probably in the future there will be seen fewer attempts to learn it all and more attempts to learn only a part. . . . Society of the future will be one of greater and greater change . . . morality will have no place . . . right & wrong will give way to social expediency. . . . The units of organization will be larger . . . despite the set-back occasioned by the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Democracy will not be so successfully applicable. ... A declining population is altogether a possibility. . . . There has often been discussion of how far the birth rate will fall...
...wrong method because it does not work. It is better for every one in the end to let those who have made losses bear them than to try to shift them on to some one else. If we could have the courage to adopt this principle our recovery would be expedited. Price fixing, subsidies and government support will only produce unhealthy business...
Other mathematicians have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...