Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet. His altimeter recorded 41,000 feet but the altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed his five suits of underwear, his furlined clothing, his specially designed helmet...
Professor Zinsser corrected the error of Boston newspapers and of Mr. Henry D. Munn of the Medical Liberty League, in referring to the Schick test as the cause of the trouble. The serum originated by Dr. Bela Schick is used to determine the susceptibility of an individual to diphtheria, and has caused no sickness whatsoever. It is the preparation with which individuals known to be susceptible are immunized which has given sore arms to Concord and Bridgewater children...
...account of an error in the class list, the Juniors in the Engineering School have not yet received application blanks for tickets to the dance. These will be mailed to them in the near future. All other men who have not received application blanks and who feel that they should have them are requested by the Dance Committee to send their names, addresses, and reasons for eligibility to attend the dance to the Junior Dance Committee at 9 Bow Street...
...book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...Confession of Faith nor the Apostles' Creed nor the Nicene Creed nor any of the great Reformation confessions. Therefore, the General Assembly of 1923 erred in asserting that "the Holy Spirit did so inspire, guide and move the writers of Holy Scripture as to keep them from error...