Word: mistakenness
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...Fascists thought that by muzzling Catholic Action they had washed up ''any conflict or dissension between State and Church"-Mussolini's spokesman Virginio Gayda immediately so declared-they were sadly mistaken. On Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...
...have evidently been sincerely misinformed and mistaken in your issue of June 20, when you wrote...
...permitted to get the girl, thus beating out his rival, Don Ameche, on his home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot, which is one of mistaken identity: two brothers trying to save their father from the clutches of a cigaret girl, encountering the wrong girl when their father has left town with the siren. Fortunately, nobody utters the half-dozen words of explanation which would have immediately stopped the fuss. Having saved their father from the girl...
Freshmen who have learned to speak one of these languages abroad, and who think that they will have an easy time in the field because of this, are mistaken. While there are other students who slave away trying to learn to speak a language, yet the mere ability to speak it is of little value in satisfying the grammatical and literary requirements of the field. In fact several advanced courses are given in English. But the student who is reasonably conscientious about his work will find the department easier than most...
...occurred, there occurred the use of a phrase that TIME so often uses in connection with articles concerning Colored children namely, "pickaninnies." This word is very objectionable to us as a Race and has been quite embarrassing to me inasmuch as many of our customers and friends have the mistaken idea that I either wrote or dictated the statement as usual he [Joe Louis] was surrounded by admiring pickaninnies and etc. For the benefit of those who may have that idea, will you please print the correction that I do not write for TIME, and that while TIME...