Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism schools the faculty consists largely of unsuccessful newspapermen ... At the worst [the schools] are a fraud, providing snap courses for lazy students; at the best they are a delusion, giving graduates a mistaken notion that they have received valuable training...
...patrons and worked a bit. He had well assimilated the painting techniques of his consistently great contemporaries, Da Vinci and Raphael. He had once taken the trouble to copy Da Vinci's painting of Leda, which has since been lost, and II Sodoma's copy was long mistaken for the original. He could draw, when he cared to, with serene accuracy; he knew how to round out shapes by blurring their contours (sfumato), and how to steep his fingers in rippling depths of light and shadow (chiaroscuro...
...Chairman of the Committee, said Harry Truman, was mistaken...
...John Osborne's report, "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa" [TIME, July 17], I get the impression that it is again time for the U.S. to make an all-out effort to support the Chinese Nationalists. Yet, if I am not mistaken, very poor use was made of the American aid that was sent to Chiang Kai-shek when the Nationalists were still in a strong position on the Chinese mainland...
...climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...