Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blunder when you list Senator Gore as a Wet (TIME, Aug. 25). Senator Gore was nominated in the same election in which the very Dry Oklahoma Constitution was adopted and was twice re-elected as a bone Dry. . . . The Wet wing of the Democratic party of Oklahoma was squelched in the campaign...
...Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render the navy impotent and incapable of performing the services for which it existed...
...start of the fateful fifth frame, the first four men hit safely, and additional runs were scored on a Harvard error, followed by a timely two-base hit by a Dean batter. A second Crimson blunder in the sixth inning netted the visitors another run. Aside from these disastrous innings, the seconds played a good brand of ball against their opponents, who have a powerful club this year...
...been officially pronounced extinct," ran an editorial, "but it is already beyond the power of human aid. Only a miracle can save it. All the optimists confidently predicted for it has come to nothing. . . . Mr. MacDonald's intentions were admir able, but he made the same sort of blunder made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who reached a preliminary naval understanding with France in 1927, and then submitted...