Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the fact that so many organizations are involved, I hope that you will correct the error. R. S. Brainerd, Chairman: The Harvard Peace Society...
...tone of the report conforms to the opinion of present undergraduate agents and the manager of the Cooperative Society on three of the four issues. On the other, the matter of allowing solicitation to continue throughout the year, the committee's findings are in error. It proposes to eliminate the admitted nuisance of solicitors through the publication of an official "Do Not Disturb" card which the official solicitors will not be allowed to violate. No one likes to be bothered with salesmen. Everyone would get an official card and the solicitors, so carefully nurtured in every other respect, would...
...with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final solution appears with a maximum error...
...Strachey made the tactical error of always speaking his mind. For example he said of the President and his policies, "He is politically clever, but the inevitable results will be disastrous." With unflagging zeal Mr. Hearst berated Mr. Strachey with the two most condemnatory words in his vocabulary--Communist and unAmerican. Probably the latter adjective should be forever eliminated from the language as totally meaningless. But if anything is typically American, it is freedom of speech. This Mr. Strachey has been denied. Certainly it is not necessary to agree with the author of "The Coming Struggle for Power," but just...
...Communists in Maine. But if there were 50,000 they have the right to their opinion and to political activity as long as they do not counsel overt acts against the government. It is folly to legislate against a state of mind however erroneous. The only way to cure error in this field is to demonstrate its falsities on 10,000 platforms. Repression was never yet a remedy for anything...