Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive for his knowledge of baseball...
With this machine, built after years of trial & error, of inference and deduction, cryptographers had duplicated the decoding devices used in Tokyo. Testimony before the Pearl Harbor Committee had already shown that the machine-known in Army code as "Magic"-was in use long before Dec. 7, 1941, had given ample warning of the Jap's sneak attack-if only U.S. brass hats had been smart enough to realize it (TIME, Dec. 10). Now General Marshall continued the story of "Magic's" magic...
...would think this set-up would be pretty error-tight-but it isn't quite, and mistakes do happen. That's where the second book comes in. It's called "The Black Book," and it records all the errors which have crept into TIME. When you write us about them, we list them in the book and try to print your letter and the correction in "Letters." But some are so hard to spot that none of you ever call us on them. We list these anyway-for our own disciplining...
...International law . . . if it is to advance at all, advances at the expense of those who wrongly guessed the law and learned too late their error. I am not disturbed by the lack of judicial precedent for the inquiry we propose to conduct...
...Spanish Civil War. But there were dissidents, even within the church. One was famed Bishop Miguel de Andrea, who did not sign the pastoral letter. Instead, he took a slap at Peron demagoguery. To a group of graduating nurses, the Bishop gave a solemn warning: "It is a tragic error to sell liberty for a few social and economic advantages...