Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loser in court shall not be granted a new trial on account of an error unless such error actually affected the case's outcome...
...prosecutor will be lying face-up and the opportunities for cross-examination by Attorney Stryker vastly enhanced. For the "Great Prosecutor" whom Republicans had already slated for the gubernatorial nomination at their State convention this month, it was the humiliation of being caught in an ABC legal error...
...Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight-lipped British cavalry captain (Roger Livesey), whose function in the film is roughly equivalent to that of the Lone Ranger in a mess jacket. By the time this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been any scalping, will at least have been rewarded by a full quota of parades, whiskey drinking, bagpipe music, sword dancing, gunplay...
PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...
...mechanism had been installed to limit the forward movement of the propeller pitch-control lever. They looked for a similar mechanism in the wreckage of the crashed plane, and found it. The investigators concluded that the crash would probably not have occurred even after the pilot's error, had he got full emergency power from his propeller when he threw the lever forward as far as it would...