Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of Freshmen, it is almost an essential in the case of the Junior. In the world at large success is usually the result of self-willed activity. In refusing to throw upon the Junior the responsibility for his own progress, the College is repeating the error of the secondary school: it is doing nothing to bridge the gap between it and the higher unit. Examinations are no doubt valuable as an exercise in clear thinking under high pressure, but in their other manifestations they are undesirable, and, at any rate, the Junior and Senior receives enough of such training...
...supported by a greatly changed line-up for Team A. Captain Hammond was absent from his post at second and several of the Team A fielders were out for the afternoon. Except for the pitchers' duel the game was not particularly fast and was marred by several errors. The only score came in the fifth inning when Zarakov, who had worked to third by Slayton's error and hits by Howard and Hoffman took home on a passed ball...
...regrettable error. The Repulse "weighed" anchor...
...intercollegiate glee club contest at Carnegie Hall recently. Such was the result announced over the radio that evening. But, according to a newspaper account subsequently published, a New York Herald-Tribune reporter, on looking over the judges' lists after the contest, found that the official announcer had made an error and that Dartmouth, not Missouri, won third place. Which is correct...
Your LETTERS afford me many a chuckle. In today's issue, Mar: 9, A. H. Miles writes "broadcasted" is a grammatical error. How could you lose the opportunity to tell him "grammatical error" is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated? A word may be ungrammatical or it may be an error in English, but it could hardly be both grammatical and erroneous...