Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...live. All Alaskans know that. Sourdough Robertson knew it. The bulging sun, which had popped up over the south horizon for a few hours, slid down again. Night came on. In the distance trotted black shadows-wolves. The oldtimer decided to camp beside a little stream. Something went wrong. He couldn't light a fire. Perhaps his old hands numbed too quickly when he jerked them out of the mittens to strike matches; stayed numb no matter how he pounded them together. Perhaps his little sticks were wet. But his fire would not start. That, quite simply, was death...
...Government, Lieut. General Nobuyuki Abe, who is occupied China's real ruler, at long last went through the formality of recognizing Wang's regime. The day before, a bomb had gone off under a train in Soochow station, but the Chinese who planted the bomb got the wrong train and killed 100 of their countrymen. A few hours later General Abe's train went through safely to Nanking, where student agitators demonstrated against the Japanese and 3,000 policemen chose that time to strike for more wages and rice...
...friend of Hitler, who said that Rothermere had offered her ?5,000 a year to serve as his personal representative in Central Europe. Rothermere admitted that he had paid the Princess over ?51,000 in six years, publicly confessed that he had once admired Hitler. Said he: "I was wrong-and so was half the population...
...actually the second of a series, for the first Kyser picture, That's Right, You're Wrong, appeared twelve months ago. Financed jointly by R. K. O., oval-shaped Director David Butler and Kyser, it was completed for a paltry $300,000, trapped $1,000,000 worth of customers. Kyser drew $100,000 net profit from the highly speculative enterprise with only the $5,000 weekly salary of his band to be deducted. Other studios, gasping at the result, quickly signed up further favorites of the jitterbug generation, for pictures that are now on their way. Paramount...
...marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without lowering his mark must first know the written or understood course rules on the subject, and then find out how his section man feels about it. Admittedly, this is the wrong attitude to take; but when the student is left in the dark, he turns to methods of self-preservation...