Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through a typographical error TIME, not Mrs. Davies, mislaid four of her years. Her correct...
...capitalized because it took a similar poll in 1934 and wanted to register changes in sentiment. So incredulous were observers of the strong anti-New Deal returns that other objections to the poll multiplied. Harvard Economics Professor W. L. Crum pointed out in the Wall Street Journal a statistical error. In 1932, 55% of Illinois voters balloted for Roosevelt. As a group this 55% was presumably more inclined to be "liberal" than that which voted for Hoover. Therefore in any fair sample of Illinois voters, about 55 out of 100 must be of the kind who voted for Roosevelt...
...election victory, good for another five years, The Illustrated London News made graphically the point that since 1900 the Labor or Socialist vote has grown in the United Kingdom from a trickle to a stream to a great river. This illustration (see cut) was meant to correct the comfortable error of many Britons who are wont to speak of "the pendulum" of votes swinging alternately to Right and Left but always tending to subside in the Middle. This error is fostered by the British polling system which traditionally operates to keep the distribution...
...wish to say that I am not the John Spargo, the Socialist, as reported in your magazine. ... I shall appreciate it if you will be kind enough to correct the error in a subsequent issue...
...thought it funny, however, to find in the Sun critic's item the same word misspelled two or three lines down. That was a typographical error...