Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous day workmen had primed the pump in vain. For the pump handle had not been attached to the connecting rod, and no amount of priming could remedy such a fundamental error...
TIME (April 4) is in error in stating Senator Byrnes of South Carolina "helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan." It was just the other way around. He done his little best to help pass the bill. "South Carolina's Byrnes" is noted for his subserviency to the White House and that is about all he is noted...
...Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
...Uhler admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...
...Bismarck. N. Dak., members of the Legislature discovered that, because of a punctuation error, it has been illegal to sleep in a North Dakota hotel for nine years. The law (passed in 1929): "No hotel, restaurant, dining room or kitchen shall be used as a sleeping or dressing room by an employee or other persons...