Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that he did not read the papers and did not care. . . ." Genet...
...might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES
...When an error is made in a publication, I know that the editor likes to know about...
...before the game is over in which case Norris will be sent to his position in the field, third base will probably be contested between Hunneman, who will start in the position and Nordberg who went through nine innings at Middlesex on the hot corner without an error...
Another fact which Professor Kohler stressed was the mistaken idea of ape psychology which is held by many persons. "Apes do not ape," was the epitome of his discourse. Simian intelligence is not imitative; its advances are through trial and error or by a sudden comprehension of the key facts of a situation...