Word: blunders
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Last week three professors employed respectively by California, Washington and Stanford Universities informed the people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
...Richard's career progressed from Ph.D. to assistant at the observatory and collaborator in research, he had moments when his equation felt the lack of some unknown quantity. When a pretty girl student made eyes and legs at him, he began to blunder toward a solution. But the answer he hit on wore spectacles. Meantime young Otto was struggling with the agonizing fractions of adolescence: he suspected his best friend and his mother of at least wanting to be lovers, and because none of them had the wit to stop him in time, ran off one night and drowned...
...observing that the one near Canada could be "camouflaged" as an "intermediate station for transcontinental flights." Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Chief of General Headquarters Air Force, had declared that in case of war, certain British islands off the U. S. might have to be seized. By a clerical blunder, these sub rosa military hypotheses were printed with testimony heard in open session, vastly to the interest of the Canadian Legation...
Curtly last week President Roosevelt informed Chairman McSwain that the Generals' views were neither his nor the nation's, that should the affair be repeated, he would pre-censor all army testimony before Congress. Mr. McSwain humbly apologized for the blunder...
...their children start to starve, when their families are being ousted from Coaltown by the mining company, it becomes apparent that the new union was a cat's-paw and that Joe Radek is responsible for the confusion. An ugly incident prompts Joe to make restitution for his blunder. He encounters two company policemen slugging his best friend to death. The fight that follows sends Joe Radek to the hospital. Warned by his Anna, who comes back to him just in time, that the miners are about to go back to work on unfavorable terms, Joe goes down into...