Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply the information and intelligence that would help the reader to be knowledgeable about Berlin rather than to fret over it. In the case of the Chicago fire, TIME had another task-to take the facts of tragedy and mold them into a compelling narrative of misfortune and error. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Chicago School Fire...
...Somebody was overly optimistic," he commented, but the error was soon realized. He said that since the delivery boys are now able to do their work faster than at the beginning of the year, the reduction in wages was reasonable and not unfair, especially in the light of the financial difficulty...
After years of trial-and-error taxation, the nation's 1,272 life insurance companies moved a step closer toward accepting a permanent formula for totting up-and increasing-their federal tax bill. The companies (in which 109 million Americans have policies with a face value exceeding $458 billion) last year paid $292 million, based on a stopgap law that levied the regular 52% corporate income tax on up to 15% of their net investment income. Industry executives who jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways...
...Quincy Street's first lady. She majored in philosophy at Bryn Mawr, and quotes President Pusey as often childing her that "I've never met anyone who got less out of a major than you did." The President, however, is wrong, for one Webster definition of philosophy proves his error: "Calmness of temper and judgment befitting a philosopher...
...Monday's issue Rev. Newbigin was mistakenly reported to have called for a return to a cyclical historical concept. It was the opposite idea, that of purposive change, which he declared based in the Christian faith and grounded in Western culture. The CRIMSON regrets the error...