Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shame upon TIME'S book reviewer for attributing to scholarly Historian Lonn's Reconstruction in Louisiana [TIME, Nov. 27] TIME'S error in referring to "Negro Governor Warmoth...
...soldiers are firing, every minute of every day, more than two tons of steel at the Germans. There would certainly be rationing of ammunition, as there has always been in every war. Any artillery or infantry commands which did not ration their fire would be guilty of a tactical error...
...rather fun to catch you in an error of fact, and the small percentage of errors is a tribute to your great organization. But it is no fun at all to point out your error in taste in quoting a statement from the President while he was voting (TIME...
...baseball, an error is a missed opportunity. Yours, although presumably factually correct, is more than a missed opportunity. It is a positive contribution to the undermining of the respect of the people of the U.S. for the man who is President and who will be President for the next four years...
Last September the austere London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true...