Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pieces typical of Brancusi's work are his "Eve," which might be mistaken for an Afric religious symbol or a representation of a huge mushroom which has been neatly clipped by a lawnmower; his "Golden Bird," which resembles an immature onion; his "Penguins," which looks like a badly constructed snowman; his "Study of Mlle. Pogany," which resembles nothing so much as drip pings from a glassblower's tube...
Sirs : I believe I must have been the old gentleman" whom Mrs. Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN...
...York, reached far out and bought the Sentinel, largest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23). That twin town, that tobacco-boom town, must certainly be a "comer" if Frank Ernest Gannett was goin? in there with a newspaper, they thought. But either he was mistaken, or it was too fast a boom town for even Frank Ernest Gannett to keep up with, or he made a good turnover, or he just changed his mind, because last week the Sentinel was resold, to Publisher Owen Moon of the Winston-Salem Journal. Possessed of the Sentinel, an afternoon sheet...
Horace did not look up. Annoyed, the millionaire raised his voice: "I understand you are lending money to my son ... I wish you to know that if you expect me to be responsible for it you are mistaken. I will not pay one cent...
...popular cry of "over-education" which always arises after such cases as these is totally mistaken. On the contrary it is under-education. And if undergraduates at American colleges are committing suicide because of under-education, it would seem that there was something a trifle wrong with American colleges. Perhaps the truth lies in the fact, as has been suggested in these columns before, that the modern university emphasizes analysis at the expense of synthesis, that we acquire information but no way of life, that in the maze of contradictory facts and theories which we encounter at this time...