Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen him proved in action, but feel the difference between his class and theirs. Officers resent this, think it wrong for him to be in the ranks. Finally his captain persuades him to put in for a commission. Bourne, having grown into the private soldier's ways of life and feelings about officers, agrees against his will would rather stay a private. He comes through another battle unharmed...
Some sixty years have passed since I studied Latin in school, but I think I am not far wrong when I quote the phrase which Cato used as follows...
...faced with now. We have large surpluses to eat and wear, yet unemployment is rife. Instead of going off witch hunting, why not create a committee to study why, in the midst of plenty, we are in the midst of want? . . . An economic system that permits that has something wrong with it. ... It isn't the preaching of radicals that creates unrest and revolution; it's a distressed economic condition...
...told these men all I could do would be to keep in touch with the situation, let them know when bids were to be made. ... Of course anybody could have done this work. ... I never promised to get any of them contracts. ... I began to think something was wrong along toward the end of the year. ... Of course I do not know what Malloy may have said to various contractors. He may have told people that, because of my father's position, I had some influence - but I most certainly did not. . . . Anyone who complained or was not satisfied...
...individual teams. If the fundamental desire to win no longer burns in the hearts of Princeton athletes, then New Jersey human nature has undergone some very remarkable changes. But if specific victories and defeats have come to be the sole measure of athletic morale, than there is something wrong with Princeton indeed...