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Word: errs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every few years a Harvard undergraduate publishes a book, to the astonishment of classmates and to the jeers of sophisticated reviewers. Hubert Earle's new book on Europe directly preceding the war will probably be greeted in much this same way, but critics will err in condemning the work on literary lines. What Blackout lacks in sophistication and artful treatment is more than made up by its refreshing and valuable insight into what Earle subtitles "The Human Side of Europe's March...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Even seemingly infallible TIME must err occasionally. This time it appears to have gone fancy free in its issue of Nov. 6, as regards the topography of this section of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...government ought to be helping industry to its feet ... it even almost ought to err in that direction." So said red-haired Attorney General Frank Murphy last week. Since he tends strictly to his legal knitting and engages in none of the New Deal's economic fancywork, his sentiments were merely sentiments. But the same day two other members of the Administration went to the help of Business with good advice about the war boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boomology | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Does TIME not err in announcing over and over in several recent issues [TIME, March 6 et seq. ] that Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has resigned from the D. A. R. because it did not allow Marian Anderson to appear at Constitution Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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