Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Your article, "City Bird" [TIME, April 10], interested me very much, but I beg to differ with you in your reason why our English sparrow has decreased so noticeably in number. You're in the right church but the wrong...
...monument to the mistakes and errors of man." He had studied the project carefully, he said. He doubted that there would even be enough water from the Dakotas to fill the channels and irrigation ditches which the Army engineers were busily scooping out. Whether Douglas was right or wrong, the Senate apparently did not care. Alert to the demands of their constituents, the Senators turned that amendment down...
...industrialist whose company is building a very large new plant. "What happens is this. [The Treasury] sends a directive to what is known as the 'appropriate ministry,' where an official keeps it three weeks, rewrites it so the main point is obscured, sends it to the wrong man in our company, who rephrases it in trade jargon so that it is perfectly harmless, and acknowledges it in that form to the ministry, where it is later released as an agreement. Meanwhile, our investment program, which was decided on by us some time before, is well under...
...higher percentage of honest returns. U.S. experts insisted that this was "like bribing a man to be honest." The U.S. experts also condemned as unsound a tax exemption for profits plowed back into business expansion; they were afraid this might result in expansion of what they considered the wrong industries...
...Wrong Number. To the Examiner, Trauger's warning was new evidence of depravity. It ran full pages of photographs depicting sad-eyed mongrels in various stages of "torture." But last week the Examiner's campaign backfired. On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.* The paper had to yank it hastily after discovering that the findings were developed from experiments on dogs. The same day, the Examiner headlined a long-distance interview with the Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen...