Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is unbiased I have always believed. I should still like to believe it. I hope it is an error on your part and as such should be corrected...
...beauty of this cross is significant of the high motives which actuate this occasion, but marble [an error, it was granite] alone could not express the warm friendship and sympathetic understanding which are brought to us by these distinguished representatives of the Dominion. . . . Many of us imagine that the long peace that has existed between us is due to a treaty now nearly 110 years old for disarmament upon the Great Lakes. That peace is due not to the treaty but to the spirit that led to the treaty; it is due not to a formal bond of agreement...
...example, "In a moment of thrilling suspense the ball was hurled down the field and the catcher let it slip from his hands. Here was a situation. . . The coach stood up on the side lines and with a refreshingly unsentimentalized characterization, told the player he had made an error." This is almost literature...
...hardly appears seemly for the Vagabond to visit lectures. For we must all remember that a week-end, during the football season at least, and the Yale game week-end in particular, should necessarily begin on Friday. To postpone the commencement of festivities until Saturday would show a deplorable error of judgement on the part of an undergraduate. And after all, we must keep our eyes open to the true values...
There is no higher authority than the reporter on the scene. In some newspaper organizations, one major error by a reporter and he is ousted. Depending on this tradition of truth or upon the stability of their Jackson man, the Herald Tribune had let the story through, with no questions asked...