Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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A.A.M.C. found only a few things wrong with the Truman plan. It objected to the originally presented "indenture clause", (that the holders of federal scholarships be obliged to serve for a period of time after their graduation in a government agency or in a shortage are designated by the government). Most of the A.A.M.C. also did not press to increase enrollments but thought that government aid should be extended to these students already in medical schools...
...test booklet and waved it. "Most of you guys go to Harvard, and you'll probably find this pretty easy. Some of you may get a 100. But if any of you guys are smart enough to think you can get out by flunking the test you're wrong. We know how much you know, and even if you flunk it you pass." It was a forty-minute test, with simple two pints plus four pints arithmetic problems and the flexible figures of spatial relations. The sergeants, corrected the test immediately. The group average seemed to be something over...
...cartoons, however, maintain a consistently high level of humor. In addition to the familiar classics which graced this very page in years gone by, one finds the ill-shaven young man telling a quartet of follow Communists in Cronin's: "Oh, don't get the wrong. Some of my best friends are club men." Or the doctor in the Hygiene Department yelling at a student running a temperature so high that his hair is singed: "What do you want for $30... TWO aspiris...
...proper place, and that if given a chance they would find that place. Newton watched a falling apple, skeptically refused to believe it was heading for its only true and rightful place, and developed a theory to account for its fall. Whether Newton's skepticism was right or wrong is not the question: his resulting theory has had useful results...
...skeptical attitude towards Newton's is one; the geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head and asking questions, he will go right on doing himself some good...