Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This operation is, in practice, considerably less rigid and more fallible than it may look on paper. The researchers' dots do not eliminate all error, though the system catches scores of mistakes every week. Writers "freeze up" on stories and stare out the window for hours. Editors get impossible ideas that waste the time of writers, researchers and correspondents. Even the managing editor sometimes gets a literary allusion wrong...
...closing, Professor Schumpeter deplored Republican apathy and asked his audience: "Now, my babies, why shouldn't you believe in truth when others believe so firmly in error...
Accept the Virtues. In the first place, he argues, science enjoys "a total lack of authoritarianism . . . accomplished by one of the most exacting of intellectual disciplines. [The scientist] learns the possibility of error very early. He learns that there are ways to correct his mistakes; he learns the futility of trying to conceal them...
Whittling. Last week the problem was being threshed out in Washington. Some Cabinet members, convinced that the U.S. had made a grievous error in backing partition, talked quietly behind closed doors of reversing U.S. policy...
...Missouri. But the state must pay $807 for each law student in the separate school-and the 44 Negroes still don't get a really equal education. Admitting Negroes to University of Missouri graduate schools, said the PD, was "the one best way" to correct an "expensive error...