Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When they decided to journey to Poughkeepsie this June, the Princeton oarsmen set a high goal but the results so far show they were not as far wrong as it seemed...
...suppose you boys would like to know just what Mr. Benny pays me for the broadcasts," he continued. "Well, I'll tell you, it's roughly twenty grand, but when he smooths it out it comes to about 30 bucks. But don't get me wrong; I like working with Jack. Been with him for three years now and I've got two more to go before my contract runs...
...Airplane engine carburetors have been vastly improved since the old cork-float type, but they still tend to get clogged with ice in a certain temperature-humidity range. This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks. But if anything goes wrong with the hot-air valve, the engine conks just the same. To get rid of carburetors, fuel-injection systems have been devised to shoot into the cylinders tiny jets of liquid gasoline...
...general Saturday's Children is about a family of drab but amiable nitwits, the Halevys, who exist in a railroad flat on the wrong side of Manhattan's subway tracks. In particular it is about the underprivileged romance of pretty Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy...
...beginning with that of Miss Margaret Jackson, give utterance to the voice that we should have heard clearly at the beginning of the present war. It proclaims that our country cannot be neutral in thought, that its conscience needs no propaganda to tell it the difference between right and wrong, and that it should take its stand squarely on the side of Great Britain and France, who are fighting for a cause essentially our own. We are not enamoured of war for war's sake; we are not anxious to have our young men kill and be killed...