Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, June 27 listed North Dakota among those states in which marriages between whites and Negroes are prohibited. If this statement had appeared in the next issue, TIME would have been in error because by Chapter 126, Laws of North Dakota, 1955, this prohibition was repealed, effective July...
...Third Seawolf in U.S. submarine history. The first was lost at sea in 1920. The second torpedoed 18-odd Japanese ships during World War II, but was lost off the Admiralty Islands in 1944-probably, according to a later inquiry, depth-charged in error by the U.S. destroyer Rowell...
...level, but at that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
After the show she let an error be known, too. Her quotation had come from Philippians rather than Ephesians. She also confided that she and her husband had no intention of spending her winnings at the same speed that she had won them. Said Winner Kreitzer: "I guess we'll probably put it away for our rainy days...
...Juice. In Australia he made a more amusing error. Spotting a strange new hopping animal, he asked the aborigines about it, was answered with the word "Kanguroo" and never learned that the word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary...