Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-card straight are four out of 47; whereas, with a five-suit deck, the chances are only five out of 60. In other words, the probabilities would be .085106 in the former instance and .083333 in the latter. TIME, therefore, is nearly 18/100 of one percent in error and if the responsible party feels indebted for this information, I'll settle for one blue chip...
...most interest is the manuscript of the famous sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." In it glares the poet's notorious historical error for he had set down Cortes staring at the Pacific instead of Balboa, the rightful discoverer...
...PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE NAMED FOUR AUTHORS: DR. CHARLES A. TOMPKINS, MISS GRACE WASHBURN, DR. MATHEW WINTERS AND MYSELF. THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH WAS INVALUABLE AND VITAL TO THE WHOLE UNDERTAKING; SINCE SCIENCE IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THE SEEKING OF THE TRUTH THIS ERROR SEEMS GRIEVOUS TO ME. IT IS UNFAIR TO THE CO-AUTHORS IN THAT IT DOES NOT GIVE THEM DUE CREDIT AND PLACES ME IN A POSITION WHERE I MAY BE MISJUDGED. AS A TEN-YEAR TIME READER I FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOU WILL BE GLAD TO CORRECT THIS FALSE IMPRESSION...
Five years ago measurements made in a mile-long vacuum tube in California showed apparent fluctuations in the speed of light up to 12 mi. per sec. Physicists promptly raised a hue & cry, which was quieted when the fluctuations were ascribed to that old standby, "experimental error," or to "disturbing influences of unknown origin"-i.e., movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time...
...esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt on his own tail, ends up where the righteous Hays office likes to see all enemies of society...