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Another common error is in stating there were 13 colonies at the time of the Revolutionary war. Pennsylvania was not a colony of Great Britain in the same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration...
...error. Average time for an 18-hole round of golf is 150 minutes. Even should a player take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. - ED. in a letter signed by L. A. Merillat- which appeared in your issue of Aug. 15. In this letter the writer states "there are fewer horses in cities than formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report...
...error. TIME prints no "gossip...
They went to the highest Massachusetts court, pleading error and prejudice at the original trial. The highest Massachusetts court replied, in five typed page's, that it could...
...error. TIME merely stated, In reply to a subscriber's question (TIME, Aug. 8), that no story had appeared in TIME concerning a convention of Lions International...