Word: errored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swathed in sweaters and towels, and wearing a white umpire's cap over bristling white hair, Haines is a striking sight, and seems almost functionally adapted to leaning into stiff breezes with overtones of cold spray to catch the fleeting error that can throw a whole crew off. When approached about the present write-up, he looked hesitant and said dubiously, "You know, I don't want there to be too much of this 'Bert Haines' business." Every man is, of course, entitled to his opinion about this...
Five more walks, hits by Myles Huntington and Johnny Goldsmith, and an error by the pitcher brought in seven scores in the second. This ended the scoring only until the third, as the Freshmen combined three walks, an infield error, and a hit batsman with two singles, and a double by Goldsmith to counter five more times...
...found, the student is considered to have received his copy, all protests to the contrary. Lehman Hall must send accounts to 15,000 men, and of these only 400, or three percent, ever receive the drastic second notice. Yet there is no attempt to cover possible margins of error by sending a simple warning before slapping on a fine...
...Pentecost's Hoppi-copter, you say that gliders are "only half the ticket" in fulfilling man's desire to fly like birds. You may be right- but there are over 1,000 sailplane and glider pilots in America who, in order to forgive you this grave error, must assume that your Writer (poor man) probably has never experienced the thrill of "motorless flight." These pilots will tell you that there can never be a motor-powered craft that will replace the sailplane and glider as aids in achievement of the mortal's ambition to flap his wings...
...Next day, the record was corrected-Churchill had said only that Wallace had "foregathered with . . . crypto-Communists." Rio de Janeiro was startled when a translator's error produced the headline: "Churchill Says Wallace Is Communists' Christ...