Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding red, blue and sugar stamps (TIME, Jan. 8). This act removed from circulation ten billion red points, 17 billion blue, and sugar stamps worth 250,000 tons. Not to have invalidated them at a time of growing food shortages, said Chester Bowles reflectively, would have been still another error...
...sure I shall be one of several to call to your attention your error in TIME (Dec. 11) in the picture of the Italian notables. In your asterisked explanation you say: "On his [Crown Prince Umberto's] left is Count Sforza." Sorry, but Count Sforza, whom I have the pleasure of knowing very well, is at the extreme left of the picture, beyond Bonomi...
Chack bowed his head, whispered: "Yes, they are at the front indeed. I confess my error...
From the prisoner's dock came a groan. Chack had slumped to the floor. Attendants carried him to a chair. Again he whispered: "I confess my error. . . . Americans have come to comfort me in my cell. . . . Now I understand America in her humane aspect . . . her aspirations not to become the greatest but the best. . . . That is what I would write...
From Trial & Error. The Chinese WPB takes advantage of the many trials & errors of the American war production system. By every device Nelson & Co. could conceive, the setup eliminates diffuse authority, parallel agencies, snafuing red tape, all other bureaucratic hindrances to efficient administration...