Word: misreads
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...Lawson figured that J-type people are visually "blacked out" during 11% of the time they think their eyes are open. He believes that blinking is responsible for many a misread scientific instrument, many a missed tennis ball, many an auto accident...
...Labor Party and Government will make a serious mistake if they misread all this to mean that they can get by with anything. The one complaint heard in workers' canteens and in Tory bosses' offices alike is: "They don't give us a lead." It is the single crack in Labor's armor, and it could widen into one big enough to let out Clement Attlee and all his Cabinet...
...someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, the students deployed themselves as per instructions to the designated hill. But the sad story of too little and too late was told all over again: map-master Raisz had misread...
...TIME's tired printer slipped, misread Lo as Los and obtiene as obtiente...
Knowing these things, the U. S. press has an opportunity to present news that is not merely authentic sounding but generally authentic. But if Reader Francis thinks TIME indicated that the Allies were having a walkover he misread its pages...