Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cote led off the fatal sixth with a long blow to center field which Burns captured after a hard run. Morrissey, the next men up drove a hard ground ball at the University third sacker and reached first on the error. He stole second, took third on Savage's out to the infield. The next man to face Barbee hit a fast bounding ball down the third base line which Zarakov bobbled. Freeman scored both men with a long single to left which went for a safety when Todd slipped and fell, and spiked the plate a moment later...
Permit me again to call your attention to the misuse of the word "Jew," in TIME which in the main is so carefully edited that such an error repeated is hard to understand...
Unfortunately this is a difficulty which besets all too many educational functions. The frailty of human nature is a well-recognized failing, and any committee is liable to the grossest sort of error. But to see too great a danger in this instance in face of the repeated assurance on the part of the Committee on Admission that each applicant will be considered on his individual merits, is perhaps exaggerating pessimism...
Chase, substitute fielder on the 1928 nine, replaced the veteran Ullman at second base, and though the shift did not add to the team's attack, Chase made several hard stops around the mid-way sector, accepting three chances without the semblance of an error. Coach Mitchell also changed his batting order in the hope of improving the team's scoring power. Chauncey was moved up to the sixth place, Sullivan at the same time dropping to the next to the last post...
...Having bid out of turn, a bidder is not penalized if he makes his bid sufficient before the error is noticed and before another bidder has bid. But the sufficient bid must be in the same suit (or in No Trump if that was the insufficient bid). If the error is noticed and called before being corrected, and before another bid has been made, the offender must make his bid sufficient and his partner is barred from the auction. But in this case, the insufficient bid may be made sufficient in any suit or in No Trump...