Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fifth Column. In Hackensack, N.J., the meeting of the Bergen County Republican Committee was well under way when a dozen delegates got up and apologized for having blundered into the wrong room, sheepishly moved next door to the Democratic meeting...
...skeptics were yelling up the wrong penstock. By this week, as President Truman headed west to dedicate Grand Coulee and the Columbia Basin project, the dam had long since become the world's greatest single source of electricity. When the President pushes a ceremonial button to start its newest generator (13th of 18 to be installed), Grand Coulee will be producing 1,404,000 kilowatts-enough to supply both Cleveland and Cincinnati with all their power. Yet this amazing torrent of energy will not satisfy the insatiable demand...
...Coca-Cola employs about 300 of them, half of them Americans. They are scooped up like so many bottles at the front end of a Coke bottling line, and are put through a preliminary two weeks' training in New York, during which they are thoroughly rinsed of any wrong ideas they may have had about Coke. Then they move along the assembly line to various U.S. plants, where they are filled brimful with Coca-Cola lore (sample subjects: old containers, scrap material, disposal of; bad gas, how to detect; bottles foaming on machines, common causes and remedies...
...time he left for Great Falls in 1933, Dr. Schemm knew what he wanted to do. Inspired by Dr. Louis H. Newburgh's work at Michigan on kidney function and water balance, Dr. Schemm came to the conclusion that it was probably all wrong to keep victims of edema (dropsy) on a low-water regimen. Dr. Schemm learned that many medical men had suspected that the way to get rid of the water in dropsy was to give more water, not less. Cautiously he began to test the theory on heart-disease patients bloated by dropsy...
...Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became a full-time Tassman in 1933. Todd insists he is not a Communist Party member, but makes clear his belief that Russia can do no wrong...