Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Error. In Denver, Larry Schultz, handsome air-force applicant for a football-coaching job at MacMurray College, learned that he was ineligible. The reason: MacMurray is for girls only...
...probability for two identical bridge deals to occur in 18 deals, as described in your Nov. 12 issue, is grossly in error. . . . The chance for the event to occur as described is one in 350,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 instead of one in the unit 85 with 54 zeros...
...sorrow over this error. . . . We request you, if it's possible to publish something of how the facts were in actuality (stuff to this you have in this letter, and in your correspondents Charlton Whitehead's report, too). We do this, informed over this that TIME is world's greatest magazine and that every word published in it has weight and power. We would be very happy we could read Truth over us in such magazine as TIME...
...regret to find that in its Dec. 31 issue TIME has fallen into the somewhat common error of referring to Montezuma as "Aztec Emperor of Mexico." Montezuma II was not an "emperor" and did not rule over an "empire. . . ." Montezuma was only one of the two chiefs of Tenochtitlan, the ancient Mexico City. Both these chiefs had but limited powers. . . . The "Aztec Empire" was only a loose confederation of nations tributary to Tenochtitlan but not integrated into a single, or even several large, governmental systems...
...area with fixed antennae. The elevation beam shows the plane's altitude and its rate of descent. The azimuth beam shows the direction of the plane's approach and its distance from the landing field. In both indicators, the plane's air track appears on calibrated error meters-with a hairline representing the ideal approach. On the basis of these meter readings, the pilot gets such verbal instructions as "Change course to 064 degree heading" or "Increase rate of descent to 150 feet per minute...