Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epee match, captain Win Over-holser led his teammates to a 7 to 2 win over the Bostoniaus. Ben Morton, Marty Smith, and George McNair rounded out the Harvard team. An electric epee, which eliminates any margin of error by recording points electrically, was used for the first time yesterday...
...Error of the fatal flaw," my foot! And I fain would use it (the foot) to kick the gobbledygook-talking diplomats in their hindsight. Only Lattimoronic "experts" could have failed to foresee the calamity that was bound to result from letting the Mao mob become the rulers of China...
...took the wrangling authorities ten months to declare, beyond further appeal, that Gehrmann had won the Wanamaker (TIME, Dec. 18). It took an admission of grievous error (the crossbar had been too low) to convince Robert Richards, and the crowd, that he had vaulted only...
...Protestantreacted with a stunned and unanimous "Why?" Some remembered a campaign against Rotary waged in 1928-29 by Rome's potent Jesuit magazine, Civiltà Cattolica. In many countries, the magazine charged, Rotary was altogether too friendly with the Masons, and was dangerously prone to the error of treating all religions as of equal value...
...originally by the newspapers which have been playing the draft situation high on the front page for weeks, or, perhaps they believe they can gain some advantage by their move. Certainly in a few cases this advantage may exist. But for most students enlisting now would be a serious error...