Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howe called the decision of witnesses to invoke the privilege "perhaps a mistaken one. It is the better part of wisdom to talk" despite the danger of possible government prosecution, he said. "But I find it very hard indeed to say that the teacher who decides he will not talk can be charged with a grave abuse of his Constitutional powers...
...Harvard Athletic Association has been busy, very busy, these past few weeks, moving into its now headquarters at Shannon Hall. The building, a three-story Georgian brick structure, might easily be mistaken for a clubhouse from the exterior, but inside it bustles with the activity of unpacking everything from trophies to paper clips...
...Coronary patients who think they can stave off further attacks by unnatural idleness are mistaken, said Manhattan's Dr. Arthur M. Master. 'Of 2,200 heart attacks, he found, 23% occurred during sleep, 29% while at rest, 24% during mild activity, 13% during walking at an ordinary pace, 9% during moderate activity and only 2% during unusual exertion. ¶ Basing his judgment more on "clinical sense" than on statistical proofs, Boston's Dr. Richard H. Overholt advised: "If you have a family history of cancer of any kind, don't smoke, but if you have...
...five-hour session before a Soviet tribunal (others told of trials lasting only three or four minutes), then were sentenced to hard labor. His guard asked him how many years he had got. "I told him 25," said Keuntje. "He looked at his list and said I must be mistaken; his list said only five. Later he rechecked and told me with a smile: 'You were right...
...items (chosen from a record 6,000 entries) ranged from preserve jars to crystal goblets, from plastic leaf rakes to automatic dishwashers. Most of them had bold, simple shapes; there were corkscrews and clothes hangers that might be mistaken for modern abstract sculpture. Cheap-looking plastic was disguised or dressed up, e.g., by pressing interesting-looking cloth weaves in plastic sheets. Furniture seemed more solid than in previous years, with more contrasting materials, e.g., brass and marble, and more expensive woods. Example: an oblong conference table in which eight pieces of walnut were matched perfectly to produce a flamelike pattern...