Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abundance of personalities makes the book an entertaining study. They participate in significant and generally amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...
Soviet Price Error...
Pattern for Error. The most eye-catching conclusion: "Everywhere we found freedom of worship. Even in Yugoslavia . . . churches were open and crowded. In Poland and Hungary religious instruction by priests is still compulsory in state schools. Nowhere has there been an official attempt to prevent people from worshiping as they please...
...bodies aboard the U.S.S. Honda Knot would not be the first to arrive in the U.S. Early in the war, through an error, the bodies of two U.S. marines were returned to their kin in St. Louis (TIME, June...
...Except to the bookish," he writes, "many of what are called the Standard Novelists have the set air of an officially appointed committee. We had fallen into the error of believing that they [wrote] for critics, for literary historians, for students or for leisured persons of academic tastes; and people who read only the best authors usually let one know it. We had easily forgotten that the masters . . . stood above their contemporaries and survived them, because they were more readable, more entertaining, more suggestive and incomparably more able than the common run of novelists...