Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...error in administrative judgment does not, as in the reversed movie, pour the spilt milk back into the glass. The final conclusion of the Committee that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy should be reinstated is unjustified at this late date. If President Conant can be forgiven for making a tactical blunder, it is not so easy to forgive the Committee for declaring that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy should now be reappointed...
...profit of $20,700,000. In 1932 Mr. Nuelle's O. & W., familiarly known on the Stock Exchange as the Old Woman, was one of the country's 19 Class I roads (among which D. & H. was not included) making money. Then Mr. Loree made the blunder of his life: He used part of the Wabash and Lehigh Valley profits to buy 495,000 shares (10%) of New York Central. He bought at $22 and held it. It reached $55 a year ago, is now $13-and there are convincing rumors that D. & H. is taking its loss...
...education. For too many years the accompanying murals have offended his aesthetic sensibilities. The war memorial in the Chapel is a fitting and adequate tribute to the idealism engendered by the greatest of all social disasters. There is no need for a mature university to surround the tragic blunder with the maudlin sentimentalism of the verses and murals in Widener Library. Where was the "righteous cause," the "victory...
...army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard, by advancing on the village through a corridor lined with Chinese divisions. By thus exposing their flanks the Japanese committed an inexcusable military blunder, but they had gotten away with it before and thought they could do it again. They failed to take cognizance of the new Chinese fighting spirit. The Chinese showed that they are learning to cope with Japanese superiority in offensive weapons by abandoning positional warfare in favor of mobility...
...decided, and off they went in a cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...