Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guardsmen leaving the base were mistaken for the crew of the C. G. 290, were beaten up back of the freight yards by seven hard-faced...
...tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned him in the desolate Blue Mountains. With a young English girl named Ada Allen Mace whom he later married, he escaped, stole a camel, reached...
That earnest publicist, Dr. Bernard I. Bell, has at length in a letter to the Times laid the ghost of the ubiquitous but mistaken idea that Harvard's "House Plan" is intended to duplicate the English college system as exemplified at Oxford and Cambridge...