Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having been out of contact with so-called civilization for nearly six months, we had the good fortune recently to obtain a copy of TIME, March 19 from a passing schooner. May I rectify a small error in your reference to my father in that issue? You state that he commenced his psychic inquiries in 1919. Actually, he began his investigations in 1884; it was not until 1916 that he received evidence of survival after death of such irrefutable quality as to finally satisfy even his Sherlock Holmes's brain...
...four quartz crystals, about the size of matchbooks, which vibrate in controlled temperature vacuum chambers at 100,000 cycles per second. Their function: to control the pulses of current which drive the mechanism. Working together with 600 electron tubes, the crystals operate with a margin for error of about one part in a billion...
...Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression," and who committed the grave error of turning for help to the rich. Besides, the movie showed him pleading during a peasant uprising: "Killing people-is that the right thing?" China's Red spokesmen, who believe that it is (see above) concluded: "Wu Hsun behaved in a quixotic manner. His course was not the course...
...noun of assembly for cats," said the fourth leader. "Scorning to go about in packs or herds or even in a pride, they walk by themselves." Judge Basil Blagden of Cliffords Inn promptly begged to differ. "Sirs," he wrote, "You have, I believe, for once fallen into error ... Cats . . . assemble, on the rare occasions when they do so, in a 'clowder' and kittens in a 'kindle...
...right and was forced at second by pinch-hitter Rafe Webb. Walt Greeley pinch hit and walked, and John Donelan, batting for pitcher Bob Ward, singled Webb in. Then Ed Foynes scored Greeley and Donelan with the third hit of the inning and came around himself on an error by Winnich. HARVARD ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 5 1 2 2 0 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 0 1 1 0 White, ss, c 5 0 1 5 8 0 Akillian, lf, 2b 3 0 0 2 0 1 Johnson...