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...debatable. Secretary Mellon can quickly prove that Mr. McCoy's errors as a fiscal forecaster are negligible. At the Capitol, the Treasury's actuary can be and often is made out a worthless prophet. But there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure to his delight in always finding that the U. S. Government is in better financial condition than he had predicted...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
...course, they err. Señor Santos-Dumont was flying dirigibles when Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...
...here it is that the professional atmosphere has done the most damage. "For", says Dean Nichols, "judgement, tact, good taste, discretion--all qualities essential to editorial columns are the qualities which develop only with age and experience. And it is not surprising that young men just turning twenty occasionally err in these respects. The unfortunate aspect of the situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps, too, a little forgetful of their own youthful indiscretions, turn to the suggestion of graduate control...
...Vagabond wishes to lay down at the very beginning his plan of campaign, the key, so to speak, to his cultural museum. In the first place he intends to give especial comment only to those examples of intellectual interest which in his judgement-subject though it may be to err-seem to warrant such notice. Moreover, going on the principle that it is well to lay up good things for the future, he intends to list his specimens not only on the day in which they shine in all their glory, but in addition, on the day before, so that...