Word: mistakenness
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...must say one thing at this point: We have not been wrong in our plans. We have also not been mistaken about the efficiency and bravery of the German soldier. Nor have we been mistaken about the quality of our weapons...
...dramatize the exhibition, the Museum's directors illustrated the history of furniture design with a series of models and photographs, beginning with furniture's first move toward modern functionalism: the ugly old-fashioned "Morris chair" designed in the 1870s for British art-crafter William Morris, in a mistaken attempt to defy the Machine Age. The historical survey moved onward with examples of tubular steel sitting machines by German Bauhausler Marcel Breuer and French Architect Le Corbusier, to the light, cardboardy modern plywood seats and tables by Finland's Alvar Aalto...
...inadequate knowledge of the aims of professional education. For example, I doubt if the Harvard Medical School curriculum is "readymade," within the meaning of your term. Its pattern changes too rapidly. Furthermore, there is a closer association between obstetrics and dentistry than you indicate. Obstetrics, unless I am mistaken, is the science and art of pre-natal care and delivery. The teeth discover a proved uterine existence early in embryonic life, a significant circumstance in attempting to control their normal development. We should be concerned as dentists with a very broad concept of the factors affecting dental disease...
...Note: Mr. Eichler is mistaken about the validity of our "conversion." The board that is responsible for Tuesday's interventionist editorial is the same board that determined last spring's short-of-war policy. Freshmen interested in sophistry are advised to re-read Mr. Elchler's letter...
...front" of the U.S. Army [TIME, July 28] are interesting, in that the writer fears that the reported 50-50 isolationist-interventionist conversational standoff is important. It isn't. Americans will do their duty by the U.S. Government whether that Government seems to them as individuals to be mistaken or not. As one of the few generally educated peoples of the world, we do not have to be indoctrinated with interventionism to do a good job for America. I happen to be an isolationist of the "hemispheric defense" school of thought, but that does not mean that...