Word: mistakenness
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Shortly he died, saying: "I haven't an enemy in the world. They must have mistaken me for somebody else...
When Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight told organized labor, "You cannot strike against the Government," Labor's bold reply was: "But we are striking." In this, Labor was mistaken. It was only trying to strike, and last week its effort petered out. Congress, embattled on greater issues, gave no sign of revising the 130-hour-per-month requirement of the new Relief Act, which so affronted aristocratic A. F. of L.; nor of rescinding the 18-months-&-off rule which hurt lowly Workers Alliance. Both organizations fumed and demonstrated sporadically last week, but WPA moved on oblivious. Grimly, Administrator "Pink...
...Klemme described the operation at a meeting of the American Dental Association. The dentists were interested because tic douloureux is often mistaken for jumping toothaches or nerve pain following extractions and dental anesthesias...
Although the Freshman protest against the House selections may be quite justifiable, the complaining group is mistaken in tracing the source of the trouble in the admissions system "per sc." The cross-section and merit principles upon which this system is based are not incompatible. For, contrary to Freshman claims, the latter in theory will never be sacrificed to the former. For under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However...
...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...