Word: mistakenness
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Though the tuna were running two weeks earlier than ever before, fishers and packers were thankful that they were running at all. For the albacore, which is the U. S.'s finest eating tuna, is a wayward fish. Sometimes mistaken for a porpoise, he was until a few years ago the prize of the California fishers' catch. Then he disappeared from those waters." In 1935 famed stubble-headed Oceanographer Dr. Thomas Gordon Thompson, aboard his floating laboratory Catalyst, spied schools of albacore in the warm, blue waters of the Japanese Current 100 miles off the Oregon-Washington coast...
...Germany defeats England and attempts to invade the Americas-God forbid-and if we have no other remaining consolation worth having, at least we will know what we are fighting for. We will also know we are not attempting to preserve a mistaken ideal, and above all, we may be spared the ignominy of making the same mistake twice...
...DeVeny Martin answered his telephone, heard an irate subscriber shout something about a picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...
...Senor Lopez de Romana is mistaken. No word has yet stopped either Hitler or Mussolini...
Charlie Chaplin's "Production No. 6," known to everybody in Hollywood as The Dictator, will soon be ready for exhibitors. In spite of Chaplin secrecy, news has long since leaked out that The Dictator is a story of a mistaken identity, in which a battered little man in a concentration camp (Charlie Chaplin) and his Führer (Charlie Chaplin) exchange places. But until last week no photograph of Chaplin as a burlesque Hitler had yet been released...