Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that the men who are running the world today are not as capable of their positions as they might be. Aren't such ideas apt to be mistaken? There are students who rebel at certain literary courses which occur in the engineering curriculum, not realizing that such courses are meant to broaden their education. They do not realize that it is the broad-minded man who gets the highest position, not merely the technically perfect...
...sideburns, the "pro's" and the "con's" will be alike unrecognizable, and can slip by the watchers ere the latter can penetrate their disguises. It will, of course, be a trifle hard on the general public; many an old farmer on a sight-seeing tour will be mistaken for a legislator and questioned concerning the cotton-planter's trust or the Society for the Preservation of Indigent Africans...
...holiday season, is one of those standard pieces which bid fair to be revived as long as we continue to have the theatre (and a long time may it be!). Founded on one of the great comedy situations which have delighted mankind since the beginning of the world--mistaken identities--Goldsmith's old story of the heiress who wins, as a barmaid, the love of a youth too bashful to court her in her proper surroundings possesses a curious perennial freshness. Granted that some of the stage devices seem a bit clumsy and outworn to the present generation of theatre...
...array of problems that have recently come up for its consideration are a reductio ad absurdum of the compensation law. Among the petitioners for remuneration is a prisoner in the Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award was made on the fact that a man accidentally cut himself with a tool with which he was trying to ease a tight shoe on his own foot...
...Taussing went on to say that since the modern faculty of organization has brought about the mobilization of the ultimate resources of a nation for a war, recovery after a war is very slow, even if a collapse does not occur. Among other things Professor Taussing pointed out the mistaken belief that territorial gains or trading rights are able to compensate for the expense of a war. "No possible gains of this kind," he said, "can amount to five per cent of the cost to a nation of a war as it is waged...