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Word: mistakenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you tell me if I am mistaken in saying that TIME made the largest increase last year of any U. S. publication? I've got $100 or theatre and dinner for six on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Note,--Dean Gauss, laus Deo, is right. The raccoon coat is very nearly extinct. But is he not mistaken as to the cause of its disappearance? Perhaps a more effective reason for its demise was its adoption by the drugstore cowboy and the "Harvard Square student" and a consequent bringing of the college man to a realization of his grotesqueness. --Dean Gauss of Princeton, in the Saturday Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fur-Bearing Animal | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

Forthwith Colonel Stewart returned from Manhattan to Chicago with the words: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight. . . . I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that I owe fully as much to the person holding ten shares of Standard Oil of Indiana . . . as I may owe one who has so much wealth that he has to hire experts to spend his income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...wonder whether you are not mistaken in assuming, as you plainly do, that the bulk of your readers are tormented, like yourselves, by an acute feeling of inferiority which makes them rejoice when the mighty are brought low. I am pretty sure you are mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant to the Sunday supplement's illustrations of the minimum requirements to clothe the female form devine...The impression given by the work was a mistaken one, or almost that. The picture was not a poster, it was a Sargent!...And now at last, he had got down to the level of the subway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sargent Mural in Widener is Storm Center of Recent Criticism by Pach | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

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