Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispassionate, objective but hardhitting assessment of the Soviet regime last fortnight (TIME, July15), Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times made one point (among many completely valid ones) which may have been slightly in error. He said: "Although they [the Soviet leaders] have access to an enormous mass of information from abroad, they lack the experience to analyze...
Bylinkin had a job in the Oblast Komsomol Committee (regional youth organization). Recently he got in the wrong office, sat down at a telephone and worked for three days without realizing that he was in the wrong place. When his error was finally discovered, he said it had occurred to him that there were lots of new faces around-but on thinking it over he smugly decided that everyone else in the organization had been fired overnight...
...official of St. Claire's claimed that an 85-cent fried scallop dinner apparently marked up to $1.40 had originally been a printing error. These were the first scallops, he said, he had had in four years...
Bowdoin Scores on Error...
...breakfast alone. But he knew not the way to the Union and the building where he went to eat was in reality the Faculty Club. For four consecutive mornings he ate, unknowingly, among the pundits until a compatriot went along with him ont day and pointed out his error...