Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeply rooted in U. S. traditions, made little difference. Unlike other theoreticians and politicians who balked at this or that aspect of the New Deal, criticized methods, personalities, mistakes, costs, the ex-President made a flat issue of the New Deal's fundamental philosophy. It was not merely mistaken, said he. It was wrong. Said Herbert Hoover...
Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...
...Finns thought that by changing their Government thus they could persuade Dictator Stalin to call off his war they were mistaken. Scarcely had they relayed word through to Moscow that a new Government was ready to deal with the Kremlin than out of the clear blue appeared a brand new, ready-made Finnish "People's Government" with a resounding program and declaration...
Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for the timekeeper's gun, sent the players to the sidelines. They tooted piccolos during timeouts, chanted A-well-a-take-um-a-Joe (crapshooters' lullaby...
...convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...