Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another error was the decision not to go after German electric power, believed too highly developed to knock out. Destruction of 95 plants of 50,000 kw. capacity could have knocked out 50% of the country's generating capacity...
...forced draft of war" is popularly supposed to have produced great advances in science. A vulgar error, says Professor I. I. Rabi, Chairman of Columbia University's Physics Department. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Professor Rabi looks gloomily back at the last five years -and gloomily ahead at the immediate future...
...TIME'S error had a small kernel of truth: some of the original Palace, begun by Edward the Confessor (d. 1066), still stands as part of Britain's Houses of Parliament. But most of the Palace was destroyed by fires...
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...popularity on the Hill. Many wise Washingtonians thought that the President had worked himself into a position from which strong assertion of leadership would now be more difficult than it would have been at his Administration's beginning. In many a score book this was the one big error of Harry Truman's half year, and meant more trouble ahead...