Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went ahead in the first frame of the five and one half inning set to scoring as a result of a triple by F. E. Nugent '29. In the third inning, singles by B. H. Bassett '31, E. H. McGrath '31 and E. R. Todd '29 combined with an error and two bases on balls gave Team A four runs and practically cinched the game. Over this three inning stretch P. M. Sidel '31, Team A pitcher, allowed only two hits and struck out five while holding Team B scoreless. In the fourth and fifth innings, however Team B. largely...
...preventing homicide. J. H. Swigert '30, introducing his case, made a strong historical appeal which branded the death penalty a survival of the primeval instinct of revenge and accordingly reprehensible. It is "inhuman and cruel," was his premise; and it "closes the door of justice in case of possible error...
...redemption values would constitute the interest yield. This system is now used by the British Government and it is believed it might result in considerable interest savings to the U.S. because: 1) bills need be sold only when money is actually required; 2) there would be no chance for error such as the Treasury's offering an issue at an unnecessarily high rate of interest (by reason of a poor estimate as to what rate will sell an issue), or offering an issue at too low a rate with the result that it would not be subscribed...
...interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure everything published by this particular author. Here also begins the storing up of those little bibliographical details which lend zest to the hunt. The fancy of the proof-reader, the error of the typesetter, the imagination of the binder,--all these and many other factors tend to make identification of first issues so certain and so easy--after one knows the variations...
...September, 1918, during the St. Mihiel offensive that the historic error occurred. American troops half an hour before had occupied Thiaucourt; the cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded...