Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am wrong but I was wondering if some photographer had fooled TIME or was TIME trying to palm off on us an unauthentic photograph-a thing which even the best of journalists have not at times balked...
...Hartford (Conn.) Times a former newspaperman, 34, advertised: "Job Wanted-I can tutor your children, wash your automobile or your dishes, take your dog out for a stroll, do your office work, ghost write for you, prepare your speeches and argue with your mother-in-law. . . . There is nothing wrong with me physically, mentally or morally. Will you take a chance on me?" The advertiser: an inmate in the Connecticut State Prison...
...philosophical asides that interrupt the gun play and suggest that even popular romancers are sometimes troubled by the moral of their tales. Staring at the dangling body of a rustler he has just lynched, Laramie reflects: "It [lynching] was a common practice, inaugurated ... in order to intimidate cowpunchers going wrong. Not greatly had it succeeded...
ARCHITECTS OF IDEAS - Ernest R. Trattner - Carrick & Evans ($3.75). Beginning with Copernicus and ending with Einstein this book gives lucid explanations of what 15 scientific theoreticians have done for Science. Of more interest than Author Trattner's biographies are his accounts of vulgar errors, wrong theories and bad guesses for which scholars and scientists fought tooth & nail...
...wanted to master birds' accomplishments as well as man's, declared in 1505 that no man would ever get his feet far off the ground until he had thorough knowledge of air and its currents. The invention of engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents...