Word: mistakenness
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...rate, Miss Shipley, I would like to help you in your quest for payment of my subscription, but I think that this too is a case of mistaken identity. The check which you refer to was not lost in transit, nor was it misplaced. It was received by you, and you cashed it, franked it, cleared it through the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on Feb. 15, returned it to the St. Anthony Park State Bank of St. Paul, which deducted the proper amount from my account and transmitted it to me canceled and perforated...
Eden is impatient to take over as Prime Minister himself. An Asian settlement would let Churchill out and himself in. And as architect of the settlement, Eden would enter 10 Downing Street bathed in glory. The outside world has a mistaken image of Eden. It tends to think of him as the courageous anti-appeaser of the Munich days, who resigned rather than go along with Chamberlain's policy. But the truth is that he resigned only under pressure from his Under Secretary, the present Lord Salisbury. At the time, there was growing popular opposition to appeasement policies...
...possible that a college with standards as high and achievements as numerous as those which Bard may well be proud of, be considered a failure: The creativity and imagination, intellectual and artistic, which all visitors immediately notice at Bard, has been mistaken for eccentricity, valuable individual freedom for a "Bohemian" type of strained non-conformity, and insight and initiative for ultra-progressivism and fanaticism...
...Schoenberg's review of "Marco Millions" is mistaken in assuming that any individual "must take the greatest blame"--or praise--for the choice of a production. Since in actual fact the play was amply discussed and chosen in full club meeting and in conjunction with the Harvard Theatre Committee, it is no more fair to do this than for me to hold Mr. Langguth fully responsible for the editorial views of the CRIMSON. Matters of policy must be ascribed to the organizations as a whole in both cases...
Sorokin usually attributes his early rise in Russia's political and educational circles to "mistaken ideas about my ability" and "just plain luck." To ability and chance, his friends would add firm conviction and a tenacity which has brought him both trouble, in the form of political imprisonment, and fame. "This is my stubbornness," he says: "I regard it a man's main duty to tell the truth as he sees...