Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...
...regards the mistaken statement that the Crusaders support indiscriminately all wet candidates, we would first point out that the success of the passing of the 18th Amendment was achieved through the indiscriminate support of dry candidates. Second we would point out that the Crusaders support wet candidates, but only those who have at heart the welfare of the country, and honestly believe that it is jeopardized by prohibition. In short, the Crusaders is a non-partisan organization placing the defect of prohibition above all party politics...
...Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first novel, Laughing Boy, a Navajo love story, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1929. Long, lank, dark-skinned, dark-haired, with a little mustache over a big mouth, Author La Farge has "low-swinging, gorilla-like arms," has some-times been mistaken by Indians for one of themselves. He is married to Wanden Mathews, lives in Manhattan...
...practice known theatrically as "throwing 'em away"), discloses that he has received offers of help but prefers to let his firm go bankrupt, announces that he is going away because his life, his wife, his children and all young people "bore him a bit." "No, I'm mistaken," he corrects himself. "Infinitely...
...lawyers began appealing to higher and higher courts, occasionally winking at the rules of strict legal ethics. Counsel Seabury thought he had a gentleman's agreement with Doyle's counsel whereby he would be given notice when the case was to be taken before an Appellate judge. He was mistaken. Late one evening, one of Doyle's lawyers raced to Lake Placid, got an uncontested stay from Justice Henry L. Sherman, oldtime Tammany worker...