Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are so afraid of criticism that they discriminate against athletes as though they were all brainless chumps who had no right to be educated. Is there anything wrong with giving a few athletes an education...
Hubbard doesn't object to professionalization as such. "The only thing which is really wrong is that football is a professional business which pretends to be amateur," he admits. His solution is open subsidization of players. "Some of the money, at least, would go where it ought to go--to the men who earn it," he concludes...
...TIME applauds Student Krisel's attempt but prefers Franklin Roosevelt's own plans of his Hyde Park "dream house." Some objections to the Krisel plan: the kitchen is too narrow, the pantry at the wrong end, windows badly spaced, partitions awkwardly arranged; and there is no way into the farther bedroom except through the nearer...
Nevertheless, many were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...alternately hired & fired Leo Frenssen, an able telephonic technician but about as dependable as the late Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he mystically resembles. Once Leo Frenssen was an enrolled member of the Belgian Communist Party. He resigned with the declaration: "I am convinced that Communism is now the wrong theory-I am for peace, and I believe that every conflict can be settled peaceably if some imagination is used...