Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week which preceded the beginning of time. TIME almost knows that, however, and wonder at the comprehensive material presented in the soul of wit of its welcomed weekly pages. . . . Being an idealist with a desire to see everybody excepting myself good and correct at all times I observed an error of statement in a recent number of TIME. According to the editor breeding places of all but four of our North American birds were known. I naturally asked about Ross's goose which had been left out of this list. Here is a letter from my old friend Captain...
Official records describe His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Yoshihito, as the lineal descendant of the first and prehistoric Emperor Jimmu of Japan (circa 660-585 B. C.). Though the Emperor Jimmu is still believed to be the fifth in descent from the Sun-Goddess, an error was discovered last week in the official genealogy which has previously set forth that the present Emperor was the 122nd in descent from Jimmu. It now appears that the Emperor Chokei (1368-1372 A. D.) was a real person, and not mythological as was previously supposed. He was inserted in the official records last...
Both of the articles dealt with here have in them that insidious half truth which can make more trouble than all the error possible for any popular periodical to gather in a year. And the half truth is that barrenness can often result from excessive concentration. Such barrenness one finds in successful business men as well as in products of the graduate schools. And the duty of those who have education on their minds as well as in their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like...
...apiece. We would have liked to get twice as many an twice the price, if necessary. Thousands will swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does not at once look bleak and dreary to an English 'varsity man if he happens to drop a ball. Nor does he feel eternally disgraced...
Certain statements concerning the aptitude of mankind for error have long become established in that nobility of stalwart sententiousness, the cliche. There is, then, no cogent reason for reasserting the truth that even editorial writers have momentary lapses from the plane of virtue, not to say, taste...