Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regrettable that this matter has not received previous mention. We expected that other freshmen, witnesses to the affair, would have written to the CRIMSON, commenting on it. Apparently we were mistaken, hence our belated action. James Bows, Jr. '55 J. Max Bond...
...because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work, and that was their undoing. Employees of the cleaning establishment told police that the not-so-brainy Paladino had recently been asking searching questions about the Parnis apartment...
...Chambers explains to them-and to the world-why he became a Communist, why he left the party in 1938 and what the real issues were in the Hiss trials. To many people, he says, the Hiss case has become just "another crime drama in which the props [were] mistaken for the play . . ." Actually, the trials were a battleground on which "the two irreconcilable faiths of our time-Communism and Freedom-came to grips...
Last week Eriko, a secretary, was being bawled out by her boss for an unforgivable error: she had mistaken one of the boss's concubines for his wife, and escorted the concubine unannounced straight into the boss's office. Would Eriko be fired? Would her boy friend walk out on her? All of a sudden, Japanese listeners seemed to have lost interest. Moreover, some were downright disgusted. Complained one housewife: "I had been led to believe that Eriko would be happily married by this time. I don't like the program any more...
...come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a "functional" (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as "transitory, innocent." Sometimes they were misled by high blood pressure. Other errors were more surprising: tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach and latent syphilis were all mistaken for heart trouble...