Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stretch at Gales Ferry. The Harvard eights have been kept intact and seem to be improving daily under the direction of Coach Charlie Whiteside. The Yale coaches have deemed it wise to give out reports of times and the condition of their squad which the Crimson scouts have called incorrect so that has added to the difficulty of securing a based for comparison. However, the heavy odds which favored the Yale varsity two weeks ago have been steadily declining as a result of the Crimson showing...
...tells of the "foiled CRIMSON attempt" and an editorial to the same effect, Lowell House receives gratuitously free publicity for their dance and the H. A. A. is threatened with drastic reorganization along the lines of N. Y. U. Humor is sought through the time-worn device of placing incorrect head over a story and the final brilliant touch is the review of the Crimson-Lampoon parody by Robert K. Lamb...
...statement contained in the last sentence above quoted is incorrect. The Kim is not the first Russian ship to visit a U. S. port in 17 years. The Russian ship Vazlaz Vorovsky entered this port on March 23, 1925. There were women in the crew of the Vazlaz Vorovsky as there were in the crew of the Kim. The cargo of the Vazlaz Vorovsky consisted of bulk sylvinite and bulk manure salt...
...Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when she was defeated...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...