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...err is human and to me a recent error is most embarrassing. On p. 24 in TIME, Jan. 21 I quote from the article captioned, "Beautiful Boxes"-"Before the contest Mr. Britt's mailbox was propped on a fence rail between tin signs advertising Coca-Cola and a tonic known as DR. PEPPER ('Good for Life...
...never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above him. The Ramapo, its stern at the base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle...
John Hunter (1728-93), great English surgeon, once sat a skeleton beside his sole pupil at a lecture so that "when I address you as gentlemen, I do not err...
...subjects, to recommend to Congress favorable action on quota for Japan. The statement of facts authenticated by the record, which was presented by the California Joint Immigration Committee, furnishes a complete answer and serves as justification for the stand taken by the Pacific States' Delegations. TIME did not err...
...like Homer "who nods" or do your officials err...