Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain a standard of values which is of his own making. To feel his long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation won at first blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy learning at all times, but to discover an unbroken path to continually...
...Quinn later admitted her parliamentary ignorance and error. Then she made a pronouncement to which there was none to take exception. "Before men made us voters," she said, "God made us women...
Notwithstanding that this letter is both impressive and compelling, there is one little error that I am sure you would desire to have called to your attention. That is the line "TIME is the fastest-growing non-fiction magazine...
...nothing new. He is a cheery bird but as a minister representing a Great Power he lacks in dignity. He fraternizes with all the Revue actresses-German and Lettish, and doesn't do it discreetly either. I wonder if you spotted in that same issue-Foreign column-another error. There is a long article on Maria Feodorovna-nee of Denmark and it goes on to say 'whom you see here' and the accompanying picture is of the murdered Empress Alexandra of Russia." H. G. ADDISON...
...Harvard first year men scored in the first, third, fourth and eighth innings. R. L. Summers led off with a free ticket in the opening inning, was sacrificed to second stole third, and scored on an error by the Tufts backstop. Summers stugled in the third, stole second and third, and scored on a blow by F. E. Nugent. A walk, an error, and two hits tallied twice for the Crimson in the fourth, and a walk, an error, and a sacrifice and a single brought in three runs in the eighth...