Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delighted with the "God Control feature, but for one error. Bill Pickle was cut out of the picture which features him, and in his place you left Hambro, president of the Norwegian parliament...
...point his moral was a ferryman on the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Under common law she could have valued the boat at $500, if that was its worth, and based his rates accordingly. If he had paid $1,000 for the boat, it was his own error and loss. Another Roosevelt example was a run-down electric plant in Georgia with a few miles of line, a few decrepit boilers worth $50,000. When it was offered for sale fresh bidding raised the price to $200,000. But, according to the President, the new owners...
This is doubtless an error. I believe it has been generally conceded that the discovery and introduction of indirect lighting was attributable to the work of the late Mr. Augustus D. Curtis...
Permit me to correct an error in your article on Hawk Mountain Sanctuary [TIME, Oct. 11]. You say that Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is "the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected." This is not strictly accurate: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the world primarily for the birds of prey, but these birds are protected together with other species of wild life in the National Parks and certain other sanctuaries. Particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies is to be congratulated on the reversal of its policy regarding the birds of prey. The Association...
...Music Hall canard is worse than bad news reporting; it is a printer's error. TIME wrote two statements coupled by the word "and": "Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly, and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York, is the finest theatre in Manhattan." The last six words were omitted-with horrifying results...