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...present a difficult and controversial subject . . . with a sort of Olympian understanding and detachment, and perhaps a sublime tolerance . . . But . . . isn't there a misprint under the picture [by Artzybasheff] ? Shouldn't it be "We Are Getting to the Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Deprive" would be possible, proceeding on this hypothesis: conform to, liken to, prior to, oblivious to, but deprive of ... The reason for selecting "adjacent" completely eludes me. A misprint, a bad question, or are we "oblivious" to something quite obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Russian word for "from" is iz, which can hardly be a misprint for chrez posredstvo, which is how the Russians would translate Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Iz Is a Big Word | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...worth of industrial equipment out of some $15,000,000,000 to be produced this year; 2) several hundred consumer items of minor importance to the cost of living. Examples: fly swatters, locomotives, subway cars, flowerpots, turbines, soda fountains, dredges, cuff buttons, gaskets (a misprint in the Associated Press story touched off premature celebrations by U.S. casket makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Hatchet Work | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...legitimate controversy seemed about as subtle as those of the same animal out on the tiles. He has got out of all responsibility, I gather, now, and is speaking his mind and letting us know how limited it is. ... There are moments when I could imagine Van was a misprint for Von. Yet the Vansittarts have been English for two hundred and fifty years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Wells Sees Through It | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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