Word: mixup
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...confusing second event, a hapless and inexperienced freshman squad galloped around the wrong trails, finally coming up with 41 points to Tufts' 17. The mixup on the trails occurred when flag markers for the varsity course were followed by more than half of the Crimson and Tufts freshmen. Although the distance was then too long for a true freshman course, comparative times determined the scoring...
...vaudeville team, Paramount's Gold Dust twins stage a hoary entangled-arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...
...periods later M.I.T. scored on a penalty kick. But as darkness fell, Estin got his second goal of the afternoon when he cracked the ball in from a mixup off to the right of the Tech goal...
...antiquities of London looked forward to meeting the governor of Georgia, with whom his American son-in-law was acquainted. "Do you suppose," he wondered, "that it would be indelicate of me to ask His Excellency-is that right, do you call him His Excellency?-what that mixup was all about that time they seemed to have several governors of Georgia? Would he mind discussing...
...fire behind this sulphurous cloud was caused by 1) a mixup by the Department of Agriculture and 2) a smart trick by Dealer Owen. Last May, the Department of Agriculture wired all big dealers that it wanted to buy mules for resale to Mexico. They were needed to replace oxen exterminated in Mexico's hoof-&-mouth epizootic. The dealers bought up 8,000 mules, signed contracts to buy 12,000 more. But when they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have...