Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most people know, there is a new problem around this year. Perhaps "new" is the wrong word; the problem has been with us for a few years, but it seems especially apparent now. Thus, when I opened the door yesterday I expected people to be standing in corners chatting merrily away about this and that, mostly that...
...pimps, explains the Rag-picker, are the parasites and non-productive members of society--presidents and vice-presidents of corporations, to be specific but non-inclusive,) The Countess sets out to rid Chaillot of such wickedness, which she manages to do in short order, there being "nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." How she accomplishes this, and the introduction it affords to the Countess' world, is the substance of the play...
...Columbia College found nothing wrong about him. A onetime Rhinebeck, N.Y. high-school principal, he first went to Columbia in 1917, quickly rose to professor of history. In class he had his own brand of brilliance. Lumbering slowly back & forth across his platform, arms folded across his chest, he had a way of making history come alive without resorting to flashy dramatics. Students flocked to hear him and seven times voted him their most popular prof essor. In 1943, when Columbia College needed a new dean, President Nicholas Murray Butler picked Carman...
...similar story. During World War II, he says, one of the Manhattan dial exchanges (very similar to computers) was overloaded with work. It began to behave queerly, acting with an irrationality that disturbed the company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...
...would be more than a century before the mosquito Aëdes aegypti was pinned down by Walter Reed as the carrier of yellow fever. But even many of Rush's medical contemporaries knew that his cure was fantastically wrong. Yet diligent Dr. Rush was soon prescribing it for everyone who became ill from whatever cause, soon came to believe that all fevers were one fever and that one yellow fever. There can be no doubt that Rush killed many sufferers with his stupendous purges, and with bloodletting that often took more than half the patient's blood...