Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick of big, expensive New York City last fortnight when his boast of a $325,000,000 saving turned out, due to an error in adding, to be $200,000,000 too big (TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit...
...years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...
...Boston authority on syphilis, who requested that his name be withheld since he is an employees of the U.S. Public Health Service which released the syphilis survey, stated that the average number of false reactions with the standard blood test, is 2 per 1000, a factor of error which would completely invalidate the American Social Hygiene Association's findings...
...HONOR IS MISPLACED. I HAVE BEEN IN NO WAY CONNECTED WITH THE OUTSTANDING RESEARCH CARRIED ON BY DRS. BLANKENHORN, SPIES, AND COOPER, ALTHOUGH IN JUSTICE TO YOUR EDITORIAL STAFF, I DID INTERNE IN THE CINCINNATI GENERAL HOSPITAL (1928-29) WHERE THE WORK WAS DONE, WHICH DOUBTLESS ACCOUNTS FOR THE ERROR...
...important thing for beginners is the waxing of their skis," Hinton said. "Waxing is important in cross country skiing especially. We have been experimenting by the trial and error method ourselves, mostly the error method," he admitted...