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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...what is wrong with . . . the organization of a committee against Cornmunism? The inconsistency of condemning Stalin's actions and yet sympathizing with his friends and agents in this country . . . makes one wonder if there isn't a little pink mixed in with your printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Missouri in 1881, Grant held a succession of advertising jobs before he went to Milwaukee in 1916 as the Journal's advertising manager. The 34-year-old Journal, under Founder Lucius W. Nieman, had done well as an "outspoken, independent organ of the people against all that is wrong . . ." But shortly after Grant arrived, Nieman's fearless idealism nearly scuttled the paper. Fed up with the pro-Kaiser sympathies of many of Milwaukee's German-born, which persisted even after the U.S. entered World War I, the Journal began to translate and publish verbatim reports of anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No. I | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

There are obvious reasons for giving exams back to their authors. Marks are often based entirely on a final exam. In order to improve, a student must know what he did wrong. A good exam also provides a summary of a course which is useful in studying for generals. Finally, a student is entitled to scholarly curiosity in learning which of his ideas about a course were right and which were wrong. There is no excuse for him to hear what one professor said this week: "Sorry, I keep the exams all summer and threw them out last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bluebook Battle | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of Y.P.H., predicted that his group would go along with the Progressive Party and not with Wallace. "As for myself," he said, "I can't stick with Wallace's idea of my-country-right-or-wrong...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: North Korea No Aggressor, Leftist Clubs Say | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...things that make Montalban convincing in the role of a detective is that he is so often wrong. He tags the wrong man as the murderer from the start, and is only through the persistence of Harvard's "Professor McAdoo" that Justice triumphs. The Professor is played by a movie actor named Bruce Bennett, who, believe it or not, looks and talks like any number of youngish local scholars...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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