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Word: misprint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice one or two inaccuracies in your otherwise excellent account of the John Hicks house in your issue of December 3. The first is obviously a misprint of April 18 instead of April 19; the second's that the British troops on their way out to Lexington in the dawn of that day were landed near the present Court buildings in East Cambridge, or as it was then known at Lechmere's Point and crossing on the narrow causeway over what was then the wide tidal estuary of Miller's river made their way to Union Square, Somerville, whence they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early History | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...Methyl chloride ("methyl chlorine" was a misprint) is a wholly safe refrigerant as proved by long experiment in U. S. laboratories and by 25 years' use in the French Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maligned Gas | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin museum director responsible for many of the traditional Rembrandt ascriptions, replied to Dr. Van Dyke's charges. The cables quote him as saying there were probably 300 or 400 actual Rembrandts extant. If this is not a misprint, Dr. von Bode has come down from his original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Van Dyke | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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