Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself evident quite as much in the school and colleges as anywhere else. A society that talks slipshod English is going to produce slipshod teachers. Another reason may be summed up in the word "carelessness" a carelessness that has political cause as well as others, for there are some mistaken citizens who regard careful English as sinister affectation. Their view seems to be that one can talk as badly and incorrectly as he choose and yet save his country, to say nothing of the domestic hearth, while one who pronounces the language so that it is at once melodious...
Those of your fellow-countrymen who believe that France dreams, or has dreamed, of political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken. As the creditor of Germany. France is not so mad as to wish to reduce her debtor to poverty. It is in the interests of France that Germany should work, produce and recuperate...
President George W. Childs' remarks accompanying the statement, although admirably frank, told little not already known about the industry. Many of the Company's present difficulties he attributes to the policy, now proved mistaken, of stocking too heavily; low leather prices and a three-years' depression in the tanning industry have consequently entailed severe losses. Mr. Childs, however, philosophically pointed out that tanning is a "basic industry" and bound to recover sooner or later. Subsidiary lumber companies did well last year in earnings and business, furnished almost the only bright spot in the 1923 statement...
...populace was mistaken, Pugilist Lodge, Minnesotan, is not related to the Senator from Massachusetts...
...unidentified hero's being mistaken for an intoxicated reveller caused C. B. Delafield '27 a thousand-dollar loss from a fire in his room, it became known last night...