Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, the Van Sweringen interests never had any part of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, and to me, this is a grave error, as the shipping public has come to know the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad as one of the progressive small railroads in our country. Further, if you will get the financial report as available to you, you will find we have been an aggressive and progressive railroad...
...days later Izvestia officially admitted its editorial "error," labeled the Suvinsky editorial "essentially an enemy's outburst. . . . The author of the article, who crudely distorted facts and made completely wrong and politically harmful conclusions, has been removed from Izvestia...
...believe your footnote is in error when it states that Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing were the only full generals in the history of the U. S. Of course, I realize that temporary generals such as Summerall, MacArthur and Craig aren't really generals in the fullest sense, but I have always been led to believe that one George Washington was a full general. You may wriggle out of this apparent error on the grounds that when Washington was general the U. S. proper did not exist except in the form of the loose Confederation of States...
...background of the War and Revolution-a chronicle which carries Ivan luckily through the slaughter of the Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...
...this new biography, the best so far, the biographer sets himself to prove that modern critics who belittle Gibbon's history commit an error equal to Boswell's when he snarled that "Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow," or to Dr. Johnson's when that captious fellow club-member implied that it was Gibbon who had ruined Rome. Ingenious as well as admiring, Biographer Low makes no attempt to turn ugly-duckling Gibbon into a swan: the greatness of The Decline and Fall is dramatized more effectively by contrast with the fussy mite...