Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite the need for funds, which the error generated, the Council followed up its Registration Day pledges by mailing the actual pledge cards to the student contributors, thus forfeiting their only record of who had pledged, and what...
...FOOTNOTE*-At present more than 4,000 (only 32 new ones have been added in the last five years), the majority because of "theological error" rather than immorality. Among Indexed books: Richardson's Pamela; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Hugo's Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, all the works of Anatole France, Zola, Maeterlinck...
...Said the President on Oct. 31: "We believe these actions [Suez] to have been taken in error, for we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes. To say this, in this particular instance, is in no way to minimize our friendship." *The British Broadcasting Corp. taped his speech for later rebroadcasting to Britain...
Elections committee chairman John B. Reed Jr. '57 said last night that he had received no official order for the re-tally. He added that he considered it unlikely that there was any error in the counting...
...known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared to the employment...