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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the New York Herald Tribune paused, with forkfuls of breakfast bacon poised, to read a story in that newspaper, and to wonder. The Herald Tribune had made a grievous error, and was eating printed words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Greatly Exaggerated | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...would be an error and inconsistent to neglect that part of Mower's artistic sense which is in nature, experimental. His color often may be labelled under this term. It is with significance that one reminds himself of the important place the experimental approach took in the lives of Manet, Monet, Cezanne and still more recently in Bellows in the "Archery Party" there is a experimental study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLOR PREDOMINATES IN MOWER EXHIBITION | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...Since writing the above it has occurred to me that you might decide to go further into the directory business, and to save you from making another error I wish to advise you that there is a gentleman upon the Supreme bench by the name of Pierce Butler, whose home was also in Saint Paul. There is another gentleman in Washington by the name of William D. Mitchell, who is holding down the job of Solicitor General of the United States, who also hails from this village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...inquisitions as in the November minor agonies. If so, and there is a great deal of cause to believe that such is not the case and that it is in the present sieges that the majority of blunders arise, there is no adequate reason for continuing the opportunities for error. Few men "find themselves" in the November hours--one presumes that that is the ultimate cause for their existence--and many are the souls that are lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLEAK NOVEMBERS | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

...second game, the recruit George William Pipgrass of New York outpitched the veteran Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Series | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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