Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proofreading rates only a brief discussion, but the harm resulting from a failure to practice the art is amply demonstrated by the three corrections penned upon the mimeographed pages. Another error slipped by the Department's eagle-eyes...
...CRIMSON was in error yesterday when it reported that undergraduate applications for the Yale hockey game would no longer be accepted. Tickets for the Yale game, which will take place March 2, at the Boston Garden, may be obtained from the H.A.A., 60 Boylston...
Worthy claimed that officials at the United States Embassy in Budapest had tampered with his mail. The Department later explained that a letter addressed to Worthy had been opened "in error" by the U.S. Minister. Worthy pointed out, however, that the Minister doesn't usually spend his time working in the mail room...
...Doren quit his practice at Hope, Ill., packed off his brood to Urbana 25 miles away so the boys could study in good elementary schools and be handy to the University of Illinois. "Everything interested him," says Mark of his father. "Nothing was unimportant. He had no patience with error. Since this TV business started, I got a letter from a distant cousin who said he closed his eyes when Charlie was on the air and he could see my father talking...
Without & Within. Though isolated by the disapproval without, the country showed no signs of deep soul-searchings or critical postmortems. Nobody except the inconsequential Communists had even mildly suggested that the whole invasion might have been a ghastly error for which Israel might be a long time paying...