Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing at Southborough yesterday afternoon, the Freshmen skaters downed St. Marks 3-2 in an overtime game. Captain Austie Harding scored three goals, one being an error for the opponents, while Pete Stone netted the winning tally in the overtime period...
...neighboring vicinity for upwards of two and a half centuries by the harsh clanging of a seven o'clock bell. With all proper respect to tradition, we offer President Conant's summary treatment of the bell situation as an example that traditions have within them the possibility of error...
Under a sudden avalanche of unfavorable publicity the Harvard Dramatic Club faces the possibility of serious misunderstanding in the eyes of the public. Disciplinary action taken earlier because of an error long regretted has just come to light...
...Smith, 62, with deeply silvered hair, his once full face already growing hollow with age, is a Conservative. Those who in 1928 mistook the fact that he was a Wet for the fiction that he was a Liberal, had long ago seen their error. To Al Smith the New Deal was a Strange Deal, full of Socialism, Radicalism, Communism. In Washington he stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years...
...readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts. . . ." Oliver...