Word: blundered
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...feel that this alters your conclusions, but in any case I am calling it to your attention, as a blunder of this sort weakens your case considerably...
Nebraska, perennial champion of the Big Six, held Pitt once on the 22-yd. line, once on the 14-yd. line, twice on the 2 -yd. line-where in the first half an official's blunder gave Nebraska the ball when Pitt had used only three downs. Finally, in the last period, inside Nebraska's loyd. line, Shedlosky passed to Nicksick-for the Pitt touchdown that...
Last week's was the first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren...
...Sirs: The other day while playing a round on Union County's (N. J.) famous Galloping Hill Golf Course with Mr. and Mrs. Sid Karbel, honeymooning East from Detroit, the lovely Mrs. Karbel calmly remarked that she had found an unbelievable blunder in TIME. In the pictorial section on the World Conference, she said TIME curiously labelled Mr. Morrison's picture with U. S. Senator Couzens' name. On investigation, I found to my amazement that she was right. Thus, "up the flue," went two concepts- TIME'S infallibility, and that the only women who read TIME...
...gave the 20 partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. plenty to think about. Last week they had something far more serious on their joint minds: What they were going to do with their own business? For the Banking Act of 1933 (passed last week by accident because a Presidential blunder kept Congress in session four days longer than expected) requires private bankers to give up either their banking or their securities business...