Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diagnosis and treatment of anemia." says Dr. Wintrobe, "depends on an ounce of knowledge, an equal amount of understanding, and a pound of thoroughness." This thoroughness begins with determining the degree of anemia. Ordinary red blood-cell counts, Dr. Wintrobe insists, have a wide margin of error, and the only accurate test is the hematocrit method (his own invention), now being adopted by more and more hospitals...
...they almost inevitably become what he wills them to be. Thus through man's infinite capacity for rationalization, many lies may seem to be truth, deceit may wear the cloak of honor, oppression may be practiced in the name of justice. This, to me, is the great ethical error of materialism, humanism and all other systems of philosophy which do not recognize the independent existence of absolute moral and spiritual values...
...that Charley Dressen wanted to leave Brooklyn-or even, said President O'Malley, that Brooklyn wanted to lose Dressen. Charley's irremediable error had been one of timing...
...Africa. It had been deserted because the builders put running water into all the houses. The women rebelled because there was now taken away from them their only excuse for social contact with their own kind, at the village well. I had been guilty of the very great error of putting into their minds and hearts the same aspirations that I had. And it simply wasn...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...