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Turning to consideration of infant sciences, such as the social sciences, Conant said scientific commentators err when they expect pioneers in these fields to apply the same rigorous methods used in physics...
...doctors come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a "functional" (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as "transitory, innocent." Sometimes they were misled by high blood pressure. Other errors were more surprising: tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach and latent syphilis were all mistaken for heart trouble...
Feed box. The Telegraph's comprehensive coverage of racing is zealously accurate. It prints past performances, charts and ratings, perhaps half a million digits each day, a printing task which would stagger most newspapers. But its reports seldom err. Most of them are in a jargon no layman can understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife...
...Cardinal Spellman announced that he had asked the three Catholic men's colleges in his archdiocese-Fordham University, Manhattan College and lona College-to admit the cadets. All three colleges said they would-adding that no cadet would be allowed to play on any varsity team. "To err is human," said Francis Cardinal Spellman, "to forgive, divine...
...Professor Arberry's way of thinking, the new verses will show more thoroughly than ever before what extraordinary liberties FitzGerald took with Omar-"numerous infidelities of interpretation which go beyond the generous margin of poetic paraphrase FitzGerald allowed himself . . . infidelities that err against the very spirit of the original ... Of the two, Omar and FitzGerald, if I have to choose between them, I do not doubt that the Persian was the greater poet and the greater...