Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from your slight error in subtraction (Ulysses was published in February 1922) . . . there is another point at issue: TIME's notorious sluggishness in recognizing works of art as they appear. Since Ulysses was a cocktail-party sensation in 1923, I suppose TIME commented on it during TIME's first, alert, lively, exciting year...
...Rhoads read the scientific sections of the cover story before publication and found no error in them. After the issue was on the newsstands the father of one Memorial patient, a 16-year-old boy, read the story and set out to buy 100 newsstand copies to send to friends...
Hopping mad, the National Retail Dry Goods Association, instead of blaming the retailer who blabbed, last week gave Goodall a tongue-lashing: "A black eye for . . . fair-trade . . . A policy error of the first magnitude . . ." Goodall, said an association spokesman, ought to rebate the profits every retailer lost on the premature sales. Whoever was right, the shopper was getting the benefits; last week in Manhattan Gimbels offered men's tropical rayons...
...Menace is full of clichés and stock characters who eventually see the error of communism. By the last reel, there are hardly enough cell members left to stir up a rumpus in a tea cozy. The picture might get by if it were either good entertainment or good propaganda, but it is inept on both counts...
...kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...