Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sheldon Goodman 2L, Brickman's roommate, who accompanied him to dinner, said that he did not notice that he was pale. "I was with him until he went into Hillel House. I did not notice anything wrong with him up to that time...
...Chairman Edwin C. Johnson of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee charged that RCA and its friendly setmakers were on a "sit down strike." Said he: The FCC's order "makes it possible for [people] to have color television if they want it. What is so wrong about that...
...benches for convenience and street lamps for decorum. Some students wanted to know just how much supervision the professor was calling for. But the student council liked the idea. As things stood now, complained the council president, campus cops were prowling about like the Gestapo, and that was the wrong emphasis. "We're [the council] more interested in preventing students from going off the deep end than lying in wait for them...
Last week the Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine-which contains no citron-reprinted 17 stanzas of Ovid's advice and crowed: "You had the right idea, Ovid, but the wrong remedy." It was a long literary reach, but it undoubtedly trapped some readers who had never read a Listerine ad before...
...Family. In Toronto, William Bray, arrested for beating up a total stranger, explained to police that he got the wrong address: "I was looking for one of my wife's relatives...