Word: error
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would correct the statement in our Sporting Column of October 14, in regard to the 2-mile bicycle record. The telegram announcing Smith's performance was incorrect, as we discovered too late to prevent the error being printed. The best record at the event is still 6 min 27 sec., by W. S. Clark, New York Bicycle Club, at the American Institute Rink, New York...
...west of the earth, hear of every thing there several centuries before the actual occurance. We are three hundred years ahead of their time; while Minus Infinity, the same distance on the other side of the earth, is three centuries behind the time on earth. This occasioned a laughable error at Minus Infinity a few centuries ago. We had just found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century; we were then hearing from the 18th century on earth; we therefore sent word to Minus Infinity that in seven hundred years would happen the destruction...
...lady on whom I next called - her age I judge to be about twenty-seven - spoke with feeling, a good deal of feeling, on the subject. She said, "Any young lady who married before she was thirty committed an irreparable error." This saddened me for a time [doubtful, state how long], for had my mother entertained the same views on the subject I should yet be in knicker-bockers [illogical...
...does not the Latin department fall into error in considering apathy, in any direction, justifiable. Is there not danger of its awakening some day to the discomforting realization that, in popular favor, at least, Greek has outstripped it, and that, where it formerly held its head proudly in the first place, it must now be contented with a sorry second...
...with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop...