Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt before vacation to bring civil suit against Curry was sidetracked when a Cambridge Clerk of Courts mistakenly initiated criminal proceedings. The Democratic Club called a halt to all action on the criminal case which it insists was "an error from beginning...
...educators cited Thomas Jefferson's statement that "if there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or change its republican form, lot them stand undisturbed, as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat...
Indicative of the human interest in his first editions is his copy of the Ingoldsby Legends. Through a printer's error, a page of the first few copies was left blank. In giving one of the special copies to his friend E.R. Moran, the author wrote on that page...
...still steaming last week over the shooting down of an unarmed British bomber over the Elbe River (TIME, March 23). He admitted that the British plane had been out of bounds, but saw no reason why "the lives of seven British airmen were callously taken for a navigational error. The Russians repeatedly fired on the Lincoln and mercilessly destroyed it when it was actually west of and within the allied zonal frontier...
...Second Thought. In Ely, Nev., Al Volckart placed a notice in the Ely Daily Times: "My advertisement of Jan. 24 was an error. I will be responsible for my wife's debts...