Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...everything in its power to aid her enemies.'' When those words were published in the New Orleans States, the indignant baron said that he made the comment off the record. Later, he cried that he had been "misquoted." Yet the U. S. felt something was wrong somewhere...
...should start on a course toward a foreign political goal, fundamentally foreign to her nature as well as being harmful, and one that once already turned out to be detrimental to her interests, one that today would mean that against her own interests she would be betting on the wrong horse...
...latest book (Science and Everyday Life) British Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, now editor of London's Daily Worker, told how to cure gastritis: "I had it for about 15 years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society. . . . Since then I have needed no magnesia...
...were being decided on the battlefields of France to lose hope. The mistakes that were made in the past cannot be rectified. We can only look back on Versailles, the Harding Administration, Austria, Munich, and above all Spain. We now know that Hoare, Leval, Chamberlain, and the Vatican were wrong, terribly wrong. We can only say that the fondest hopes of Senator Borah are now fulfilled; America is isolated...
...William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have the first." >New York University's Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: ". . . In these last tragic weeks there must have come home to every one of us a new sense of the worthwhileness...