Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which most of them would have some trouble in denning. I think nobody would deny that if I or you got out in Times Square and held up traffic . . . the sturdy minions of the law would quite promptly and forcibly throw us in the Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts in that direction, I ponder on these things, and am impelled to mentally emit a Bronx Cheer...
...wish to make a correction of a serious error in your report on the death of John William Navin Sullivan in TIME, Aug. 23, at top of p. 26, since your statement attaches an undeserved stigma on his family. Mr. Sullivan was under my care at the London Hospital shortly before his death, when he was suffering from complete paralysis of both legs. But it was not due to or associated with syphilis, nor was the clinical picture hardly suggestive of syphilis...
When you dignify such fantasies by further stating that Gum, Inc. is "the biggest firm in the U. S. catering exclusively to the penny gum trade," you are guilty not only of an error but you have innocently damaged the reputation of the firm that is entitled to the very statements you make for Mr. Bowman's company...
...paid aids will be a staff of six clerks in his Department of Commerce office. Last date for mailing back cards will be Nov. 20. Preliminary results will be ready Dec. 1, will be checked by door-to-door counts in sample-cities to establish the average percentage of error. Complete tabulation should be available on or before March 1, when many workers unemployed in November may be getting spring jobs...
Concerning my letter and your flip reply published in TIME, Sept. 13, may I point out that you have fallen into the understandable error of confusing barretry with barratry. I refer you to Funk and WagnalPs Standard Unabridged Dictionary, where you will find the following...