Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every year after the examination period there are some men who feel moved to grade their own work. Not satisfied that the instructor can or does mark correctly, they besiege him to reconsider and revise, and see if there is not a blunder somewhere. Fortunately, or otherwise, they are all of one genus: no one was ever heard who pleaded for a lower mark. One and all clamor for a "raise...
...substitutes made a poor showing against the seconds, though they scored 6 points to 0. Almost every good play in the scrimmage was balanced in the next by a blunder...
...poem is written exactingly in the ultra-modern German idiom. Rimsky-Korsakoff's symphony is not exactly music for amateurs. Yet the amateurs of the society played both pieces with the accuracy that was borne of ease with their music, and full understanding of it, with hardly a technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian" so learned and mastered its music. Its hearers heard the fruits of diligence and tireless leadership animated by ambition and devotion. All this, however, was only the groundwork...
...much was accomplished in a short time that the whole country now seems to be on the way to better things. At this critical time, it seems the duty of every country to extend a helping hand. On the contrary, one nation is taking advantage of a blunder on the part of the Turkish government. There seems to be but little excuse for seizing Tripoli by Italy, and still less for the horrible slaughter of 4,000 men, women and children...
...fairly aghast at the University's closing its doors to Mrs. Pankhurst, may I not have the privilege of your columns to urge all the undergraduates who can, to hear her speak at Brattle Hall, for the double purpose of thus making amends for the University's lamentable blunder and of hearing one of the ablest orators of the day? As one who has, professionally, listened to most of the leading American public men, I feel that her address at Carnegie Hall last year was one of the very greatest from any source it has been my good fortune...