Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rays are received upon a given surface, visible dark lines are formed by the interference of the waves. Using this device in Southern California, last year, experiments were made by Prof. Michelson which measured the speed of light-now given as 186,000 miles a second-with a possible error of only 20 miles per second. A light and the interferometer were placed on one peak. A mirror was placed on a peak 20 miles distant. By receiving rays direct from the light next to it and rays which had travelled 40 miles (from the light to the distant mirror...
This seems to be the open season for writing letters to TIME about errors in its colnmns, and reading the letters of other subscribers incites me to write one, although I have no particular error to which I wish to call attention. Once in a while I see one and feel like writing to you about it and then am too lazy, and find ultimately that it was not important enough to make a fuss about or that somebody else has written you about...
...nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab at it, since so few people know enough to know the difference between truth and error...
...call your attention to what seems to be an error in your periodical for the last issue received by me in the week of Dec. 8. In the first column on the 29th page of that edition, you gave the name of Judge Allan of the Supreme Court of Ohio as Mrs. Florence E. Allan. I think you will find upon investigation that Judge Allan is single. I make this suggested correction because your magazine seems to enjoy a joke on itself as well as any one else...
...public judgement of values which must be changed: and it cannot be changed if public opinion is not conscious of the role it is playing. Keys and ribbons and other tinsel will be of no avail if the effectual public opinion remains grossly ignorant of the error of its ways...