Word: misreadings
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Although Jim Doty ran the Boston Marathon under the name of James Rotz, he did not do so willfully. Rather, B.A.A. officials misread his writing. He thus has not violated his amateur standing...
...find no crucifixion of the 'teacher,' no deposition from the cross, and no 'broken body of their Master' to be stood guard over until Judgement Day ... It is our conviction that either he has misread the texts or he has built up a chain of conjectures which the materials do not support...
Eustace is an astigmatic groundhog who, having misread his calendar, staggered through the door of the Crime last night a dey ahead of schedule. Hopping to a typewriter, he borrowed a pair of spectacles and began to pound away madly, leaving the following advice for Monday-Wednesday-Friday classgoers...
...wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...
...after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward philanthropy...