Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised, however, to hear Kilty make one error in the celebrated pacan to sherris-sack. He pronounced the word forgetive with a hard g and the accent on the second syllable, as though it meant "forgetful;" a cognate of forge, it means "inventive" and should of course have a soft g and first-syllable accent...
...error of omission in an otherwise fair report on the protest against Secretary McNamara's honorary degree from Amherst: although the guests stood to applaud him after the students walked out, roughly half the faculty on the platform remained seated. The same was true after he received the degree. We speak for those seated who admire his personal qualities but deplore his part in Viet Nam policies...
Generally liberal in a conservative town, the Times is so widely read that when a substitute takes over a delivery route, he is simply told to fling a copy onto every porch. That way he only makes an 8% error, for 92% of St. Petersburg households take the Times...
...University circular in the early fifties dared to state that clubs were not influential in undergraduate life, and the report brought scores of angry letters from outraged alumni. The error has not been repeated.'While inside the club, located above J. August, the members address each other as 'Brother' this and 'Brother' that and refrain religiously from discussing politics. They are instructed to look outside only through a mirror above the J. August sign, placed in such a way that a club member may view the pedestrian life on Mass. Ave. without rising from his overstuffed seats...
...individual responsibility which the physician assumes he has is shared with many others. For the facts are that medicine has become infinitely more complex, and no physician can provide all the benefits of modern medicine by himself. Like it or not, he is dependent upon others, and a laboratory error by a technician in a remote corner of the hospital may be as devastating to the patient's progress as an error in judgement on the part of the physician...