Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a lifelong devotion to language, Funk had no use for stylistic precision. "Let's throw the old textbooks out the window," he once wrote, "along with the words correct and incorrect, because there's really no such thing as grammar, but only an ever-changing language pattern formed by everyday usage...
...murder which had just been discovered in a chemistry lab in Mallinckrodt. At headquarters, Bundle received a phone call from the stranger, who told Biff to meet him at once, muttering cryptically, "ze bronts rhinotseross." When Bundle's immediate notion that the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house proved incorrect, he became convinced that the phrase was an undergraduate nickname for some favored professor. Just at that moment, Biff noticed an immense, dark-skinned man lumbering down the University Hall steps...
...story in the February 26 CRIMSON about SDS demonstrations on March 19 against U.S. corporations involved with South Africa was incorrect and misrepresentative in nearly everything stated. Facts both about the demonstrations and the reasons for it were inaccurate. On March 19, there will be demonstrations in Boston, but the demonstrations will consist of picketing and not sit-ins (unless later actions warrant it). The other glaring mistake is the continued mention of trade rather than the more important direct loans and investments, as the center of the protest...
...last-minute change of schedule has made the Experimental Theater notice on page 3 incorrect, Duncan Foley's "Three A.M." will be presented instead of "The Mirror"--along with Luigi Pirandello's "The Dream, or Perhaps Not." The plays will run Friday, through Monday, not Thursday through Monday...
...said that "Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno ungallantly declared that his lady opponent was ignorant [May 8]." This statement is categorically and absolutely incorrect. I never said that Miss Genevieve Blatt was ignorant. I also categorically deny that I ungallantly declared anything. I am proud to say that I have always been chivalrous, and am happy to emphasize I will always be respectful and chivalrous, to the ladies...