Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, not risk too much of the fortunes of France on our illusions. Let us avoid at all costs the mortal error of making any premature reduction of the other forces of our national defense...
...stead at the start of the seventh. Booth allowed seven hits in as many innings one of them a home run by Guerney, while the other run was also upon his shoulders. Edes scoring from second in the first inning after the Crimson hurler's two base error had allowed him to reach this station. Cutts was in fine shape when he assumed the mound burden in the eighth. His slow ball and his sharply breaking curves were working to perfection, and he had complete control of the situation in the final stages of the game...
...employment in the training of the "caso system"--in other words, of problems in design and in construction. The student works on this and learns not to wander too far from the truth, but he is never told exactly what he must do. He learns by trial and error. Naturally, at the earlier stage of his training, he is wrong most of the time, and for this reason is likely to become pessimistic rather than the reverse...
...furnish preliminary sketches. These are but 12 hours in length and must embrace the general solution for the problem. During the sketch no documentary aid or aid from instructors is allowed or given, so that the student is placed entirely upon his own resources. If he makes an error, it will go hard with him, since he is not permitted to depart from his sketch solution during the rest of the time alotted him for preparation of the final drawings. This discipline is heightened by the all-day sketch problem--a program that must be solved and drawn in final...
Said the editor of the Herald (R. L. O'Brien) in commenting on his editorial: "We were in error . . . . The Associated Press corrected the original story with great promptness...