Word: incorrect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...markers take off for partially incorrect information if it is relevent and follows logically from the material at hand," they said. "Intelligent conjecture is not 'bull,' but don't just talk about something you heard in a lecture whether or not it is related to the question...
...your issue of Jan. 27 you state that Max Peter Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice on Jan. 17, 1940. You also include a cut of the photograph. This statement is incorrect...
...anyone who is familiar with firearms and their handling may readily discern, the following items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat...
...some very unusual scores, notably that of Swiss Family Robinson, which was built up on Schubert quartets. But the method had obvious disadvantages. To those who knew the music being played, it was harrowing to hear it repeated over and over again, piecemeal, in wrong keys, with wierd and incorrect harmonies affixed to it, distorted and tortured to fit the varying moods of the plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented...
Last week an undercurrent of tension rippled the sunny surface of Washington. Outwardly the city was calm. The crowds were in Philadelphia, the political writers were at the Republican National Convention, writing incorrect prophecies. The midsummer tourists wandered before the monuments on the eve of the Fourth of July; the green parks of Washington dozed in the bureaucratic sun; the same great crowds of office workers swarmed from the Government buildings at 4:30 p.m.; the same old familiar groups of spies and gossipers met for cocktails at sundown; New Dealers and newly drafted industrialists were alike caught in traffic...