Word: blunders
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...Whatever the official explanation, whatever the extenuating circumstances, Japan's single-handed intervention in the Shanghai area is a blunder of the first magnitude...
Fumed the able, vigorous Chronicle, Protestant Episcopal monthly: "It is to be hoped that no other diocese will follow the example of Massachusetts. . . . The salaries of all missionaries are small enough but the proposition to reduce them 10% is not only a stupid blunder but a heartless procedure. . . . Things are wrong, grievously wrong-the honor of the Church is at stake...
Three years ago in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena occurred the most famous blunder of modern football. Roy Riegels, California centre, picked up a Georgia Tech fumble, ran it 73 yd. the wrong way. Two yards from his own goal-line a teammate stopped him. but two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked him across the line. The referee gave the ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay...
...University authorities. The President merely "recognizes" the affair, and declares it "closed." There is no sign that it is recognized as an extreme result of over-emphasis. In an atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...
...holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily, for the birdie and a 292 to match Burke...