Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total number of votes announced, 4,156, cannot be divided by six, so that some error my have entered into the counting, though its magnitude cannot be determined
...active I.P.R. official,* as a Communist until "1940-41," when Lattimore's term as Pacific Affairs editor was ending. A letter from the I.P.R. file persuaded him to change his mind. He must have known Field's ideology as early as 1939. "My memory was in error by about two years," he admitted. One I.P.R. memo, from Field to Lattimore, read like an order: discussing a certain article, it cautioned Editor Lattimore that "the analysis is a straight Marxist one and . . . should not be altered...
...Bryan-sponsored tax became law in August 1894. The Supreme Court, reversing "a century of error," quickly found it unconstitutional. The New York Sun fairly panted with relief: "The wave of socialistic revolution . . . breaks at the foot of the ultimate bulwark ... of our liberties. Five to four the court stands like a rock...
Margin for Error. In Tulsa, Castella Smith, a 28-year-old bachelor girl getting state aid to support her five children by five different fathers, explained to an assistant county attorney: "Just human nature...
Also speaking at the forum was Navroz B. Vakil gr.L., unofficially representing the Indian people. Vakil remarked that India feels the United States is making a grave error in not recognizing Red China. "Red China will never come to an agreement with the United States," he said, "unless they facilitate a common meeting ground such as the United Nations...