Word: mistaken
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...partisan controversy IS unbecoming as Professors Elliott and Leach remind us. Have they not, however, mistaken the root of the problem? The difficulty is not that we award our honors to the living, but that we announce the awards. Let us continue to sort the great from the near-great, but let us announce our verdict fifty years later...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...administrators. Some senators resented Mather's resignation for the political sympathy it aroused and they misinterpreted his motives; one senator accused him of "trying to play the part of a martyr for education when he is actually scheming to protect his own selfish interests." The senator was utterly mistaken. Mather still does not know what post he will assume come next July. His resignation, however brought much public interest into the open; UMass may well have received more favorable publicity in the 31 days between the death of Bill 1030 and the passage of the compromise hike than...
Adams & the Dragon. Before his death, Wolfe found time to assess the Americans who fought with the British army. They were, he said, "the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace...
...occasionally mistaken for each other because of the similarity of our names. Until Max's record-breaking flight, I was always able to clear up the confusion between us by saying that he has ten children and I have only two, and that he has flown the ocean many times and I never have. Now I can only talk about