Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skipjack's maximum depth has not been announced, but even if it is better than 1,000 ft., the ship has a comparatively thin layer of water in which to maneuver. Cruising at 40 knots (67½ ft. per second) close to her depth limit, a slight error in the up-and-down steering will carry her down to hull-crushing depths in seconds...
...free to concentrate on the weaknesses which can be found even in geniuses. The technique of isolating certain elements for criticism is never used to praise an author or defend a position, but is common when breaking down a work of art. Many students are more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes emotional response as a criterion for evaluation, relying solely on theoretically objective tests that are often based on standards more arbitrary...
Furious at the acquittal, Castro exploded that "it has been a grave error of the revolutionary tribunal to absolve those criminal pilots." He had Chief Defense Counsel Aristides Dacosta hauled in by rebel troops and flown to military headquarters in Havana for a talking-to. He sent his bearded Defense Minister, Augusto Martinez, to Santiago to organize a "review" court. The new verdict: 30 years at hard labor for the pilots, lesser terms for non-pilots. Two were acquitted...
...late now to change the rocket's instructions, which would control its course inexorably once it had left the pad. Each second of delay, Debus remarked, would cost an error of 17 miles at the distance of the moon. He studied the jeweled panels of lights. They had been green, red and amber. Now all were green...
...article yesterday on the Berlin crisis, certain remarks were attributed to Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government. These remarks were not Brzezinski's. The CRIMSON regrets this error...