Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost another $2,390. For political travel Nixon drew $3,430.78, mostly for trips between Washington and California for public appearances. For radio and TV time: $2,017.79. All of the remaining $4,163.70 was scrupulously accounted for, except for one item of $294 for "miscellaneous"-and a $2.25 error in bookkeeping. This was considerably at variance with the Post's implication that Nixon had used the money to buy a house and hire a housemaid...
...month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error to correct their mistakes...
...being a navigator, and he never could find the office of the Geodetic Survey, and within a month the Army drafted him. Unwise, unprepared, he was told that his best aptitude was automobile mechanics and was assigned to bus tables at a cooks' school, where, because of an administrative error, he has spent the past 17 years...
...must be dropped. (Impending drop: 4905 A.D.) By the 18th century, only Russia, Protestant Sweden and England were holdouts against the "Popish" calendar. In 1752 the elegant Lord Chesterfield persuaded Parliament to give in to Gregory. "It was not . . . very honorable to England to remain in gross and unavowed error," he said, "especially in such company [as Russia ]."*But there was feverish agitation against the innovation. Lord Parker, son of the astronomer who had helped Chesterfield draw up his bill, was harassed everywhere he went by the cry: "Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed...
...What we are celebrating tonight is one more step forward in the intrusion of science into a technical art of long standing and of first importance. We can signalize it by giving fancy names to old procedures. Time was when the soapmaker improved his soap by trial and error procedures. Now we say the manufacturer of detergents progresses by scientific research...