Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard--Gannon walked. Caulfield singled to right but Gannon was thrown out trying to take third, Caulfield reaching second. Kenary reached first on an error, Caulfield scoring. Kenary stole second, and scored on Coulson's single to center. Mannino walked. Sullivan flied deep to Baake. Coppinger flied to left. Two runs...
...Genius has its place," Sheets adds. "It stimulates the rest of us and it has raised the general prices of art. But most artists make a grave error when they try to imitate the peculiar ways of geniuses-longhaired and dreaming...
...Cobb and his fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...
...Student League for industrial Democracy, our parent organization, in the years previous to World War II, learned the hard way of the bitter fruit of cooperation with Communists in the anti-conscription movement. We wish no repetition of that error, we are fully aware of the results of odious miscegenation with Communists or their sympathizers...
Margin for Error. Oregon's high venereal disease rate in the '30s had worried Dr. E. C. Brown, a VD specialist who thought that more knowledge would mean less disease. Before his death in 1939, Brown gave $500,000 to the University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked...