Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architectural solutions and yet at the same time their own university had been building a library with a Gothic mask. Talking to them I had the feeling that Princeton's library may well turn out to be the last example of our colleges' long devotion to a mistaken loyalty . . . to the outside appearance...
...largest Ward stockholder (104,000 shares), finally decided last week that it was time to move. It sent two of its trustees to Chicago to investigate. "We are very much disturbed," said Chairman Merrill Griswold, "that some of [Ward's] directors, out of what seems to be a mistaken sense of loyalty to their oldtime associate, Mr. Avery, are overlooking their duties to the general stockholder...
...knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
When it ended 30 minutes later, 45 pickets had been carted off to the police station and a dozen participants hurt. (Among the injured: a plain-clothes man who was mistaken for a picket by the cops and soundly slugged...
...participation in the late unpleasantness was the result of a profound misconception as to the manner in which the meeting would be conducted. We were mistaken and admittedly naive in thinking that the Wollacitea would not utilize it for political purposes. It was a mistake of strategy, not of principle...