Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kicking game for three quarters, the Freshmen opened up toward the end of the final period and by a succession of wide sweeps and off-tackle thrusts carried the ball to the School boys' nine yard line, where they were held for downs. At this point an error in judgement on the part of the Crimson backs lost them a possible opportunity to score via the field goal route. On the third down, with the ball in play at one side of the field, the Freshman elected to try a wide end run to gain a position for an attempt...
...said that this statement was based on his personal opinion. He testified that in his opinion there were unmistakable danger signs in the air, that Commander Lansdowne made an error in judgment in not steering around the storm, and that the destruction of the ship was caused by the bursting of gas cells because a number of safety valves had been removed (all points that the survivors of the disaster deny). Lieutenant Rosendahl, one of the survivors, questioned...
...Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its conclusions...
...have just read the excerpt from my letter in your issue of Aug. 31. It may interest you to know that when I wrote the Editor of the Christian Century, he excused his publication of the error by the fact that TIME had printed it, and that no denial had appeared...
Many scientists shared this enthusiasm, holding that, if there had been an error in the hydrographic charts, it was so enormous that it must have been detected long before. Greater skeptics shrugged, pointed out that the charts were indeed old, awaited the findings of a French naval commission to see if a continent was arising or if the discovery. was merely an unknown reef...