Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false teeth ... tip of right index finger somewhat mutilated." Few days later Mrs. Crater received a letter: "Your husband is alive and safe. . . . We believe there is something wrong with his head. ... I beg to inform you that unless $20,000 in bills of small denominations is delivered to us per instructions you will see him again only as a badly broken man, both physically and mentally...
...ideas. A large part of his work is above politics. . . . The immediate aim is to free society of its major ills so that life on this earth may be made happier by the mitigation of fear. Often the means proposed for accomplishing the end prove by experience to be wrong. But out of the mass of these endeavors will be gradually built a new and a better world...
...History proves that goodness and virtue cannot be forced on a people by statutes or by machine guns." "It is impossible," says Brand Whitlock, "by the use of force, however strong or violent, to impose upon the moral sense of the people a feeling that a given act is wrong just because those whose prejudices it offends have been able to induce a legislature to enact it into what is called...
...first place the desire to effect some change in the social organization of Harvard must necessarily have come as the result of a feeling that there was something wrong, something lacking under the existing state of affairs. It has been said that the Harvard of the present is more a state of mind than anything else, a very apt description in view of the existing lack of anything which might be termed social organization. Every student gets what he can out of Harvard; very little attempt is made to help him. Thus...
...important thing now is what do YOU mean by the "House Plan"? It is important that undergraduates give this question their serious consideration. Those in charge may or may not be on the wrong track, but it is absolutely certain that in the long run a system which is not in accord with the peculiar development of Harvard can never be forced on an alert and thinking student body. "The House Plan" is as yet just a name. What it will be in fact depends upon the college itself, and most of all on the incoming Freshman classes. The class...