Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent ideas and impulses who happens to have a brown beard. He is not a stuffed shirt, is locally famous for his humor, would not have permitted himself to be the model, seeks no fame through the Saint. TIME'S account was pleasant to read, partly incorrect, but not too grievously so. Friends of Bufano are glad the creation of a great monument to a great human being is the source of some warmth and humor. WILLIAM SAROYAN San Francisco, Calif...
...using initials. Mr. Soong (Harvard, 1915), if he wrote his name the old-fashioned Chinese way, would be Soong Tse-wen, but he chooses to be T. V. Soong, and never in any circumstances Tse-wen Soong. This last would give any Chinese the jitters and is not only incorrect but "impossible"-like speaking of Roosevelt Frank-lin Delano. Mr. Soong's brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, was originally Kung Hsiang-hsi, therefore took the initials...
...announcements from time to time in University publications, and we have sent indiscriminately schedules of reviews to all members, good and bad alike, of the classes taking the subjects reviewed. I also wish to mention, without detailed comment, the fact that your statement concerning the tutoring of upperclassmen is incorrect...
According to Mr. Eastman, Mr. Johnson had not done very well. "The result of the incorrect accounting," said the Commissioner, "was that the Missouri Pacific presented a false record of its current assets, of its liabilities and of its income account. It was enabled to make this false showing at a time when it was in great financial peril...
...cancer appears in any of the hybrid females " said Dr. Little, "Miss Slye's theory is incorrect, and the type of inheritance is not simply Mendelian, nor is cancer recessive. The test should take from two to three years, but is so direct and simple, involving only elementary principles of Mendelian inheritance and no permanent removal of any of Miss Slye's animals from her laboratory, that I cannot see why it should not be supported and begun at once. If Miss Slye's theory is correct, its importance as a practical matter to the human race...