Word: mistakenness
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Many of them blamed the slopeline approach lights. In the official instructions distributed to its pilots by American Airlines appears the following entry for Idlewild Airport: "Caution! Slopeline approach lights in operation on Runway 4 can be mistaken for runway." The same warning is given about the slopeline lights at Washington and Los Angeles. No matter what is decided about last week's crash, many pilots will believe that the Italian captain tried to land on the water between the piers...
Unfortunately, in this I was mistaken...
...plot is easily summarized. Ruy Blas, the hero, begins as a poor student trudging toward Madrid. At the end, just before his last melodramatic act, he is the Queen's lover and the ruler of Spain. In between there is a fantastic series of double-crosses, mistaken identities, and political intrigues, leaving the audience confused as to who's on whose side. Occasionally, there is even doubt as to who's in whose clothes. No one really cares, though, because even in its most hackneyed scenes the movie is brisk and entertaining enough to render all questions of credibility irrelevant...
There is the additional hazard that the immature graduate student will gain the mistaken impression that his graduate work places him on an easy escalator to high responsibility and success. On the job such men soon find that education is no substitute for hard work and "drive" and discover vigorous contemporaries with sharp elbows and keen if unlettered minds moving past them...
...Univac's mistaken idea that a Democratic sweep was in the making, Collingwood thinks it resulted from the fact that the first two states to report-Delaware and Connecticut-showed a heavier Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...