Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a severely marked undergraduate feels that he has been done an injustice, he is merely ushered to the instructor's grade sheets, where it is proved that the machines did not lie. A clerical error on the part of an instructor in making up the grade would have to be rectified by the teacher in charge of the course, who would report the error in writing to the Dean of the Faculty, the change to be approved by the Dean...
...make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not broad-minded and liberal ; he will identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error; he will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution ; he will foster science but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another; he will foster more divorces under...
...Buffalo the Auto Workers Union filed a $4 billion suit against Bell Aircraft Co. Nobody batted an eye. Later it was discovered that billion had been written instead of million-an error...
Never one to heed the conservative "get a horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club...
...Your gossipy footnote on Tjarda [van Starkenborgh] and his driver, on his visit to Queen Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded for his war services with one of the most important appointments in The Netherlands Kingdom, the post of Ambassador to France...