Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusky St. Louis song-&-dance woman (Josephine Baker) had ruled the jungle of the Folies Bergère clad only in several bananas" [TIME, June 16]. This is a wonderful typographical error (bandanas), priceless...
After a preliminary investigation, CAB Chairman James Landis made an obvious preliminary finding: the plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage...
...wish to call your attention to an error published in TIME, May 26, in connection with the death of John R. Sinnock, chief engraver of the United States Mint, Philadelphia. He was given the "credit of being the designer of the Purple Heart. This is a mistake, as I was the designer and Mr. Sinnock the sculptor. This is substantiated by records of the War Department...
...fact that they can set copy twice as fast (an average 400 lines, or 5⅓ columns, an hour, with less than one error per 100 lines) as the automatic Linotypes can cast it, moved TIME'S production chief to say that they are "the best teletypesetters anywhere." I can't testify to that, but I do know that the weekly Publisher's Letter (among the many innovations they have been called upon to set on their machines) is their trickiest job. The perforators were not designed to set type around illustrations, and it takes ingenuity, experience...
After six scoreless frames, the Crimson took advantage of one Eli fielding lapse to punch their first run over. John Coppinger walked and went to second on Quinn's error on an attempted pickoff. At this stage of the game, Forte came through with his first hit of the day, breaking the scoring ice for the Varsity...