Word: mistakenness
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...only certain thing about war . . . is change. The innovator and the radical may be mistaken part of the time-but the traditionalist is certain to be wrong all of the time. The traditionalist is right in insisting on the permanence of certain elements. . . . But he is merely a fool when he resists experimentation with new weapons and adoption of new tactics...
Many a young man who would like to fly for the U. S. Army or Navy resents the supposed fact that only collegians can sprout wings. Last week the Army Air Corps had the best possible answer to this mistaken resentment: 412 examination papers, turned in by youngsters who had had less than two years in college and who had been allowed to take these tests instead, to get in line for cadetships...
...estimated total on ice: around $3,000,000,000) and can be transferred only by license from the U. S. Treasury, via the Federal Reserve Bank. But even the Treasury's say-so does not free a U. S. private banker from the legal consequences of making a mistaken payment. With diplomats, refugees and foreign clients hounding and threatening them daily, U. S. bankers have lost much sleep. The Chase's solution: to seek a court decision in a test case...
...Rome, a nephew of the late Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote Pinocchio, asked the Ministry for Popular Culture to sue Walt Disney for libel. Charge: Disney's film so distorted the character of Pinocchio that "he easily could be mistaken for American...
...psycho-pathetic, depending usually on the degree to which it is hot. Such a comment is the product of unmitigated ignorance. The commenter is trying to pass judgment on the basis of his sense of classical-music values. He should be given to understand that this is an entirely mistaken standard of judgment. The only way he can possibly qualify himself to comment intelligently on jazz music is for him to listen to it until he has developed a new and very different sense, viz. one accustomed to, and appreciative of, the expression of feelings, emotions, or what have...