Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...read "objectivist" Ayn Rand's anti-altruistic philosophy [Feb. 29] with a shudder of horror. Her whole idea of life is incredibly wrong. She seems an embittered, unfortunate woman who has never learned the joys of giving to other people, liking other people and being liked by them...
...nights aboard Lazy Girl, sleek yacht of Big Florida Broadcaster (twelve radio and TV stations) George B. Storer. There was also a free round trip from Washington on Storer's private plane. As chairman of the commission which regulates and licenses all U.S. telecommunications, Doerfer saw nothing wrong in accepting such lavish hospitality; in fact, he argued, it was his duty to know and associate with broadcasters...
...years ago, seeing its second five-year plan in deep trouble, and lacking foreign exchange, India sent high government officials and Indian businessmen to the U.S. to seek more dollars and also to sound out what was wrong, from the U.S. point of view, with investing in India. The Indian emissaries got plenty of straight-from-the-shoulder advice in Washington and New York...
Supervisor Howell, 65, a onetime Seventh-day Adventist missionary in South America, assured everyone that his own view was not necessarily the state's. No state teacher was under fire for teaching evolution, though "his own mind should tell him that he is doing wrong in so teaching." But the damage had been done. From the size of the uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination...
...dropped 80 points, the Dow signal finally flashed. The market eventually went considerably lower, but by that time thousands of investors' accounts had been wiped out; 1937 saw a similar occurrence. Actually, anyone heeding the Dow Theory's buy and sell signals since 1929 would have been wrong 15 times out of 24. On those occasions, he would have sold low and bought high, an experience known in market parlance as "whipsawing." Said I. W. Burnham II, senior partner of Burnham & Co.: "I don't believe in the Dow Theory-and I don't know...