Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after he spectacularly settled the coal strike of 1933, Madam Secretary Perkins met Postmaster General Farley at a Cabinet meeting and said, "I was mistaken about that Mr. McGrady," and he promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain...
Undergraduates frequently have the mistaken impression that the employment of Seniors in business and industry is confined to the months of May and June. It is true that many Seniors are accepted for employment during these months, but the actual search for a job begins weeks or even months before. In general the season for Senior employment is from February until May of the Senior year. Some men may be "signed up" as much as a year before they go to work, bit one to four months represents the average interval between the acceptance of an offer and reporting...
...differential now change but little." Written in a technique that owes something to John Dos Passes, something to James Joyce, Clutch and Differential is made up of 35 long episodes dealing with characters who bear little apparent relation to each other. Stripped of its complicated gadgets, it could be mistaken for a collection of oldfashioned, highwheeled short stories. But 18 of George Weller's episodes are subtitled "clutch" and 17 "differential" and apparently the clutch stories deal with people who are hanging on to money, love or dreams, while the differential ones deal with people who are letting...
When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his first book of poems in 1895, his older brother Alfred wrote him: "I had far far rather have my poems mistaken as yours, than your poems mistaken as mine." In his will the solitary author of A Shropshire Lad gave his brother permission "to publish any poems which appear to him to be completed and to be not inferior to the average of my published poems." Last week Laurence offered a selection of 48 lyrics which he found among his distinguished brother's papers, in a volume that...
...extremely amused in an article appearing in this column of Wednesday's copy of the Crimson, written by one Narcissus; without doubt a budding Communist. Unfortunately, he like the typical Red, has either evaded the issue or has mistaken the point in question altogether...