Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theseus. Then he places his mouse at an arbitrary point on the metal floor. At first Theseus does not behave very intelligently. He blunders around, bumping his copper whiskers against the aluminum walls. When he hits an obstacle, he turns away and tries it again. By such trial & error, Theseus finally gets through the labyrinth and ends the play by touching the "cheese," an electrical terminal that rings a bell...
...time he never blunders, never touches the walls. He scurries along the corridors, whisks around the turns and gets to the cheese in twelve to 15 seconds. If he starts at a part of the maze that he did not explore on his first trip, he uses his trial & error method until he reaches a familiar part. Then he dashes for the cheese with confident precision...
...Crimson went ahead in the third. With two outs and Ward on third. Rahal singled, with Ward scoring when the throw to third went wild. Rahal going to second. He scored a moment later on a passed ball and an error by the catcher. Chauncey walked and scored when Murphy hit a long triple to left center...
...seventh and last frame, however, the roof fell in on Beresford and two other Yale throwers. Twelve Crimson batters came to the plate and eight came across with runs. Contributing to the scoring spreed were five bases on balls, one error, solid singles by Ralph Robinson, Russ Johnson, and Arnold, and a two-run double down the left field line by Bernie Akillian...
Arnold weakened considerably in the last of the seventh, and Yale rallied to score four times on two triples, a hit batsman, and an error by Johnson--the only misplay by the Crimson in either contest...