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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case is expected to come up for argument in the highest Wisconsin tribunal sometime this week. If no error can be found in the decision of the lower court, Harvard will have only to settle the estate of Mrs. Nieman, pay Federal and Wisconsin taxes, and pocket the remainder. How much this will be is still very much of an unknown quantity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman $5,000,000 Will Is Due For Hearing Before End of Week | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...career a decade ago. He asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prizes | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...rate, Haigis feels, even if the poll develops a greater percentage of error than it has ever shown, Landon would still have a comfortable margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haigis Expects State and National G.O.P. Sweep; Thinks Roosevelt Silence on Curley Unimportant | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

...lift my voice up for Harvard and find to my horror that I am surrounded by Amherstians. Last Saturday I thought to profit by my error. I entered through a different gate, selected a very different seat position. This time I confidently inform my neighbors that Harvard is my hope, whereupon said neighbors commence to bellow out: "B-R-O-W-N." I felt a long ways from home. If ever, dear reader, you witness a football match in Australia, don't "barrack" (cheer) for Balmain among the Newtonites. You may never see the Statue of Liberty again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Australian Graduate Student Writes of First View of American Football in Harvard Stadium | 10/13/1936 | See Source »

Names, addresses, and numbers of the Commuters will be as thoroughly checked, cross-checked, and double-checked as possible, with the aid of the Telephone Company. If anyone thinks there is a chance of an error in his case, he is urged to notify the CRIMSON in writing as to how he should be listed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Numbers Are Accumulating and Plans Are Crystalizing for Crimson Directory | 10/2/1936 | See Source »

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