Word: mistakenness
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...liquid began to surge through the cracks of the fire door strongly resembling the tide at the Bay of Fundy. Succor was soon summoned as were the occupants of the room, the spokesman of whom explained that a bottle of turpentine had been poured in by mistake previously, being mistaken for water. "So it wouldn't have been much good anyway," he said, as he licked of the cover of an Economics textbook and then set a match to the book...
...Benes will be "the President" to most of his countrymen until he dies. Yet there have always been some Czechs who feel he was mistaken in not making such a compromise with Nazidom as Poland made in 1934. Ablest of these is probably Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky. who has an American wife and long lived in the U. S. Dr. Benes has by no means been at odds with Dr. Chvalkovsky, whom he employed as Czechoslovak Minister to Italy until last week and before that to Germany...
...countrymen were prepared to get out and defend the country to the last tree and rock. "The women too," he added. "They'll go out there and shoot at the Germans. If anyone thinks they'll get through the Sudeten hills, they're very much mistaken...
...Cassiopeia (visible in the Northern hemisphere), is 400 times brighter than the sun, nearly five times as hot. Year ago Gamma began to grow brighter, like a nova, or exploding star. Astronomers were sure that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star attained its greatest brilliance, suddenly "took a nose dive," said Dr. Baldwin, as its light ebbed. Paradoxically its heat increased. It is now at normal temperature again. At present...
...Mistaken Identity...