Word: mistaken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body for sciences. So there is already a large number of undergraduates to work with who have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving the sciences after arriving here. That is why Harvard is mistaken in concentrating its efforts on the high school level. Campaigns to spark interest in science at an early age are useless if that interest is crushed by disgust in freshman year. Leo Clark '92 Applied Mathematics (Considering switching to Social Studies
...University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
...very different from that of the Soviet Union. But if the citizens of our country believe that this nation does not exist under the blanket of the Big Lie, and that many of the most important issues facing our people are not openly and seriously discussed, they are sorely mistaken. We are told every day by the politicians, and the media how "free" we are. Unfortunately, we are not given the freedom to explore that assertion. We need a glasnost...
...spring of 1872, the naturalist John Muir was asleep in a small cabin in the Yosemite Valley. "At half past two o'clock," he wrote later, "I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake . . . the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something...
...aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth to a mistaken belief that Redgrave regarded all Jews as hoodlums...