Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON regrets that a proofreader's error should so tactlessly have distorted the context of yesterday's hockey story. It is "unfortunate" and not "fortunate...
Besides, the slip of the tongue is to the radio broadcast as the typographical error is to the printed page. To paraphrase, it is hard to teach an old speechmaker new verbal tricks, or to accustom him to an accepted pronunciation when he has been in the habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject...
...Government's lengthy charge that the defense had suppressed evidence without offering "a shred of support for the charge." But particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks. "He may be reversed. But ignored-never." The jury did not ignore the Judge, pronounced Messrs. Rand & Bergoff not guilty. Said Mr. Rand, to whom the verdict came as a present on his 51st birthday: "This case is of vital importance to American business." Said Mr. Bergoff...
...miles east of Salt Lake City, killing 19, a Bureau of Air Commerce Investigating Board was en route to the scene before rescuers reached the shattered ship (TIME, Oct. 25 et seq.). Last week, in record time, their verdict was reached. It did not specifically mention "pilot error," did little to dispel the belief of many airmen that Earl Woodgerd, a notably careful pilot, believed all was well and he was safe on his course up to the moment he flew full speed into the mountainside. The verdict: "It is the opinion of the Investigating Board that the probable cause...
...clearly ticketed as an X-par-ticle. Counting the fog droplets as carefully as he could and taking into consideration the track's curvature as bent by a magnetic field, Dr. Street figured its mass at 130 times the mass of the electron-with a probable error of 25% either...