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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lids raised, the pain of my eyes forgotten, immobile and scarcely breathing, my head bent forward till my eyes were scarcely above the lip of my trench, I watched him. This was no error, no trick of the night. This was a Hun-a living and spawning Hun, in snow suit and hood, crawling on his belly toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Way It Really Was | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...that the July 31 issue of TIME hit the newsstands in Nebraska, the Census Bureau officially acknowledged that an error had been made in the population figure for Nebraska. We are no longer one of the states that lost citizenry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...typographical error uncovered 9,000 of us. Please take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Glaring Error. In Greenfield, Mass., after a neighbor thoughtfully warned a shapely housewife that several men had watched her taking a bath, investigation proved that the one-way glass of every bathroom window in a new 72-unit housing project had been put in backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...weighing all the forces that will affect the flight of the missile. When the machinery stops, the whole story of the flight is drawn as a curve on a sheet of paper. If the rocket misbehaved (went out of control, veered sideways, missed the target), the reason for the error can be found and corrected on the next flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The House on 91st Street | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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