Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally saw both bodies raked from the ashes of the house, and saw pieces of skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh to get at the bones is incorrect since it merely was necessary to break off brittle pieces of skull, jaw and leg stumps for souvenirs. The bodies were left at the scene for spectators to play with from 2 a. m. until 10:30 a. m. when they were removed to undertaking parlors." -ED. Essential Experience Sirs...
Sirs: Unfair, incorrect is TIME'S assertion on second news page, March 23 issue, that the Battle of New Orleans was won "15 days after the War of 1812 was over." Inference is that Senator Rose McConnell Long was wrong when she told a Senate committee that "Had we not won that battle, we would have been a British colony west of the Mississippi." The fact is ... historians now agree that the Battle of New Orleans was fought before not after, the War of 1812 was over. Said the Treaty of Ghent, signed Dec. 24, 1814: "All hostilities, both...
TIME failed to characterize the rhyming of "joining" and "returning" as Brooklynese because to do so would be incorrect. Any Brooklynite who pronounces "joining"' as "jerning," must of necessity pronounce "returning" as "retoining." In no dialect that TIME can discover would that particular couplet of Gloomy Sunday rhyme...
Your reference about my conviction is apt to give an incorrect impression. It is a fact that I was for several years engaged as a geologist to find potential oil fields in Wyoming. The acreage thus acquired was placed into a developing company, which is today a highly successful corporation, bearing my name. It is a fact that I entered Texas in the boom days at the end of the war. It is a fact that I was tried and convicted for overstating potential values in prospective oil fields. It is a fact that I was sent to prison...
...According to Director John Oppie McCall results on five children were "good," on three "fair," on two "not good." Some private patients made news by claiming that they got no relief whatever from Hartman's Solution. Two possible explanations: 1) compounds prepared by volume instead of weight; 2) incorrect application by the dentist...