Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error. Theodore Douglas Robinson is Assistant Secretary of the Navy. - ED. †An error. TIME reproves no subscriber. - ED. *A mistake. There is no Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield. The League's headquarters are at Westerville, Ohio...
...tabulated statistics of a baseball game, commonly known as the "box score" are from seven to fourteen columns of figures (depending on the detail with which the game is reported). The last column on the right is headed "E," which stands for "error." Here are recorded the players' single "mechanical mistakes"?the dropped fly, the fumbled grounder, the ball that should have been fielded and was not. The story of a baseball game is told largely in terms of hits by the attacking side and errors by the defense...
...first inning of the first game that the Pirates started their error accumulation. Louis Gehrig, New York first baseman, hit a ball into right field. Paul Waner, Pittsburgh right fielder, rushed in, attempted the physically impossible feat of reaching the ball before it fell. The ball struck the ground in front of him, bounced past, rolled toward the fence. Batter Gehrig reached third base on a hit normally good for only one base; fielder Paul Waner had started Pittsburgh on the road to ruin. In the third inning Second Baseman George Grantham kicked a grounder from Batter Koenig; Catcher Smith...
...CRIMSON regrets deeply to admit that error like a foul, cankerous growth crept unnoticed and uninvited into its editorial sanctum to contaminate, if not totally infect a comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets...
Hospital records showed that before the original "male" of the birth docket had been written an "f-e." Such penciled metamorphosis made Mrs. Sam Smith suspect that she was nursing a changeling. That was not her child, miscalled boy by clerical error. The other Smiths were authentically parents of boys, and were leaving the hospital. But Mrs. Sam Smith would not leave the hospital until she had a boy. Mr. Sam Smith hired a lawyer...