Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period immediately following November 2, much talk centered upon the five--elections-- wrong American press, which had all but unanimously pressed for the losing Republican candidate and, to cap the atrocity, had completely mistaken the public pulsebeat in the process. By new, how-ever, most newspapers have managed to submerge the issue and settle down to the merry business of waving an admonishing finger in the direction of the Truman Administration...
...Mistaken as well as correct answers can be detected by Dyer's appliance. If a desperate student marked all answer blanks the machine, when set for counting errors, would turn in a score of 400 for every hundred questions...
...author of An American Tragedy was like one of those characters in an old-fashioned farce who is always being mistaken for someone else: he is overwhelmed with embraces by the landlady when he merely wants to rent a room, or he is treated like a lawbreaker when he simply wants a job. Dreiser stuttered for a while before he was seven years old. He had a cast in one eye. He was bullied by older boys and overawed by his brother Paul, a successful songwriter (My Gal Sal), with his fur coat, silk hat and smart cane...
Your article regarding Childs was absolutely correct in saying 1) "Childs could not have picked a better man than Hennessy," and 2) that we plan "to improve Childs's fare" [TIME, Dec. 13]. I am happy, however, to advise you are mistaken in saying that "this year's sales have dipped below 1947." In spite of the fact that we are operating two less stores, our food sales are running ahead of last year and our liquor sales only slightly behind last year...
...Genius. Since no one showed him any angels, he painted gleaming seascapes in which one could almost whiff the salt air, and landscapes like Landscape at Ornans (see cut) that were solid and spacious enough to be mistaken for windows on reality. Well-pleased with himself, he did at least a dozen self-portraits. One, entitled Fortune Saluting Genius, showed him with a wealthy patron...