Word: mistakenness
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...Then, a visiting Japanese physician described work done by Professor Komei Nakayama of Chiba University during World War II's blackout on international reporting of scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried in the fork of an artery in the neck, and no bigger than a grain of rice, is an important element in breathing control. Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there...
...Joan Baez considers herself a folk singer I June 1, she is indeed mistaken. If she believes that by wearing burlap, communing with nature and refusing money, she can maintain an "ethnic" image, it is only to those pseudo-intellectual "preppies" and college "folkniks" that she appeals. To those who know something about folk music, publicizing oneself with the "hair to the navel, dirt in the toes" effect is the grossest form of commercialism...
...well-known Rolling Power, picturing the wheels of a steam locomotive, could be mistaken for a tightly composed close-up photograph. But gradually Sheeler came to believe that "a picture could have incorporated in it the structural design implied in abstraction and have a wholly realistic manner." Often picking for his subjects simple, linear masses-barns, bridges, machines-Sheeler drafted knife-sharp contours and smooth surfaces, sometimes with bright and unrealistic colors...
...author of the editorial "Freedom C.O.D." [CRIMSON, May 17] seems to have the typically Northern and grossly mistaken view that the "Negro problem" is essentially a Southern problem. There is no place in the United States where Negroes are found in number that there does not exist a race problem. As Professor James Q. Wilson has pointed out in his book Negro Politics, the amount done in behalf of Negroes in a locality seems to be the inversely proportional to their number...
...most interesting thing about your story on Theologian Karl Barth is the fact that in the latter half of the 20th century a magazine like TIME should consider it important to publish the superstitions of this sincere but mistaken man regarding such matters as heaven, prayer, Holy Scriptures and Resurrection...