Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...teacher's place to shield us from what some people might deem objectionable reading material. Instead, they should teach their students to read and to judge for themselves what was meant, allowing them to form their own intelligent ideas of what is right and wrong...
...they must print a correction or retraction the same day it is received from the public prosecutor. The correction must run precisely where the original story appeared, and exactly as received. WE ARE LIARS, headlined one Turkey paper above one such handout retraction, THE NEWS WE PUBLISHED YESTERDAY WAS WRONG...
...small but smashing victory for the forces of chaos, the Brattle Theatre yesterday showed the wrong movie...
...only safe generalization about long-range population predictions is that they have always proved wrong. When Malthus foresaw mass starvation in Europe unless its people stopped breeding, he failed to reckon with the industrial revolution and the agricultural potential of the Americas. Latter-day players of the Malthusian numbers game, who foresee global economic ruin in one, two or six centuries, usually fail to reckon sufficiently on the unknowable potentialities of science and the unpredictable turn of events. Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: "With the present rate of increase, it can be calculated that...
...Chicago staff. Cone stiffly warned that "the problem is not going to be solved by gentle pressure from the side of the angels or by the slow processes of education. To try to ignore it as a small percentage of all advertising is to be insensitive to right and wrong. How can four different cigarettes all be lowest in nicotine, lowest in tars; how can three different headache remedies all work fastest...