Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ticker-Watchers Cabot and Montgomery all thanks for detecting a typographical error...
...seems that those men who were chosen from our class to form the Freshman Jubilee Board have committed a grave error in selecting the date for the annual dance. As is commonly known, this is one of the largest social functions of our four years in college certainly the largest freshman affair. It is a function we all wish to attend yet in selecting May 17 as the date some 125 students will have to wave good bye to their chances of going. This is because the freshman track, baseball, lacrosse and tennis teams--as well as two crews--swing...
With two out in the third, McGrath tripled, crossing the plate a moment later when the Harvard captain poled one of Marston's fast balls to the Freshman diamond for a home run. A minute later Prior scored the last of the Crimson runs on a two base outfield error and a wild pitch. HARVARD a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Bassett. e.f. 4 1 1 1 1 0 Nugent 2b. 4 0 0 0 4 0 McGrath, s.s. 4 1 3 2 0 0 Donaghy, 3b. 4 2 2 4 6 0 Prior...
Newspaper readers occasionally encounter in the day's news the following cryptogram: "etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu." It is obviously some sort of typographical error, but what must have puzzled many an alert layman is the regularity of the error's spelling. It always, somehow, turns into "etaoin shrdlu...
When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells...