Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...people are gambling on. Resort owners know that it has to be right, their futures depend on it. The student who wants to go skiing isn't looking at the long run situation, he's only concerned with December through March. Of course, the caterpillar may be wrong...
...loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers, lawyers, doctors and retired businessmen and too few "sales managers, advertising men, and active business executives on the way up the ladder of success." What's wrong with the bankers and lawyers? They "achieved success by having people come to them for help and not by going out and selling their services to people who needed them...
Judge Medina pounced on that. What was wrong, asked he, with the same firms getting the same business? Don't many people keep the same doctor for years because he is a good doctor...
When Stebbins tried to make something of the fact that the defendants had fought against the SEC campaign to sell railroad and public utility securities at competitive bidding (TIME, March 25, 1940 et seq.) rather than at negotiated sale, Medina broke in sharply. What was wrong with that? he asked. What Stebbins was saying, said Medina, was that if you don't agree with the Government you ought "to keep your mouths shut ... It seems to me ... we are right on the brink of some form of totalitarianism...
...idea of polities deciding a college appointment seemed so wrong to most people that a drive began to free the University of this burden; after 1866 the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and other state officials stopped serving as ex-office Overseers. From that post-Civil War period on, the Overseers have been elected by the alumni--five each year for six year terms...