Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the London Financial News: "It would be wholly incorrect to assume-despite Mr. Morgenthau's statement-that a sort of 'new gold standard' stabilization is hereby achieved...
Perhaps it is incorrect to refuse to believe the statement of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Perhaps the Curley car was not going over 50 miles, as has been testified. Perhaps it was not passing another car at that rate and perhaps the Governor's person is so estimable in the sight of the powers that be that he will always be miraculously shielded from harm. In view of the fact that he has been involved in a long string of accidents and is notorious throughout the state for the reckless speeding of his cars, the above supposition luckily holds...
...observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block purposeful action, how to recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because...
TIME, July 27, p. 27 says the American Medical Association has 92,600 members constituting only 50% of 170,000 U. S. doctors. These figures . . . are incorrect and the inference absolutely unwarranted. Latest medical directory indicates 165,163 licensed physicians in the U. S., 1936, of whom approximately 140,000 are in active practice. Of these more than 103,000 are members of the American Medical Association...
Lovelock's time was 3:47.8, a new world's record by a round second. The next four finishers-Cunningham, Beccali, San Romani, Edwards-broke the Olympic record of 3:51.2. In his dressing room, Lovelock coolly admitted he had known that incorrect placing of the starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could...