Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budgetary practices of the Defense Studies Program conform to usual University practice and to the terms of the Ford Foundation Grant under which the Program operates. Moreover, the figures given in your article are incorrect...
...interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers in the backwoods were instructed to "explain to young women that it is incorrect to seek mates only among urban youth." In the China Youth magazine, a schoolteacher wrote an article entitled "Do Not Make Love to Middle School Students Who Are Still Young," directed at soldiers who were raiding schoolrooms...
...gaining five seconds per hour. A watch is 20 minutes fast, but is losing 7½ seconds per hour. How many minutes fast will the watch be when the clock shows the right time?" A few days later, a primary schoolmaster wrote a whole article defending his incorrect answer to the question: "Here are the first six letters of the alphabet, written above and below the line. Continue the alphabet in a similar fashion...
Unfortunately, concluded Rickover, "the very thought of recognizing differences in intellectual ability is repugnant to our equalitarian philosophy . . . We are committed to the basic assumption that there is no person who can claim to be an indispensable man. We proceed from this entirely correct assumption to the incorrect conclusion that neither does a democracy have indispensable men. This is obviously erroneous ... No society can function without its indispensable...
...French poetry when it decides to break out of the straitjacket of French rationality. Private images seem to compete successfully with good sense. Yet the French is intoxicating to the ear −even to a merely Berlitz-trained ear. And while the English translations are often flat and sometimes incorrect, readers will find a good man in these pages, a man who wears the mask of language, not in order to hide his identity but to make plain his role in the tragedy...