Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The call came through on schedule the first night of the insurrection and, with Dozier holding a candle for him to read by, Johnson got off a first-person account before the error was discovered...
...with a mathematical formula: "Suppose there are 7,000 white beans and 3,000 black beans well churned up in a barrel. If you scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion of 7 to 3 in the hand means a proportion...
...underestimated Franklin Roosevelt's popular vote by 7% (Roper was off only 1%, Crossley was off 7%). But in 196 elections since then his average error in estimating the popular vote has never been greater than 4%; since 1940, never greater than 3%. In 1940 he called the turn within 3% (Roper was within 1%, Crossley within 4%); in 1944 within 1% of the civilian vote (Roper within less than 1% and Crossley within 2% of the combined civilian and soldier vote...
Roger Davis hurled the Jayvees to their victory. The game's only run came in the last of the ninth when Fred Glimp got on through an error, went to second on a passed ball, took third on Steve Howe's bunt single, and scored on Gordon Ellis's second hit of the game, a single to right. Davis fanned 12 and issued only one walk in blanking the visitors...
...teammates, fielding worse than at any time this season, finally came to his support in the ninth and pushed two runs around the bases. It was too little, though, for Crimson errors let four runs slip over in the first, third, and fourth innings. Godin was meanwhile working smoothly, allowing only two hits in those frames and closing the door completely from there on. Only two visitors reached late in the last five frames, these on a walk and an error...