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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, in TIME, must shock all thinking men. Nor is this the first time in recent years that this same gross error has marred your factual pages. I humbly suggest that TIME reporters may search throughout this perilous world, from icebound Greenland to hellbent Reno, from Glasgow to Shanghai, and not find so much as one bottle of Scotch whiskey with which to fortify themselves in their admirable pursuit of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo: "We always elect poor folks in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Cougar in the Caucus Room | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...until last week, he replied: "On the day when the unions act on instructions from a political party, union liberty will be ended. ... In Mexico we recognize the patriotic alliance with the industrial bourgeoisie in order to resist imperialism. The class struggle without quarter is an error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Where Away? | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...benefit cuts both ways. Explains Carter: "When I was a student, 42% dropped out of the ministry because of the strain of doing a job without any help or supervision. These young people learn more in a month under supervision than we learned in three years by trial and error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Accent on Youth | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...TIME'S apologies to Empire for a stupid error - by a moribund copy-reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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