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Word: mistakenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slave of Roman days, and so fascinating she was that the final bid for her possession reached the tidy sum of $245,000. Who purchased Sabine at the time, who owns her now, I am not sure-Mr. Harkness was under Sabine's spell, if I am not mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...said it was mistaken yesterday when it claimed that the Student Council had faked the names of one of its charities in "a deliberate design to misrepresent...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: YPH Accuses Charity Drive Of Fraud, Then Backs Down | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...being an Oriental country, we luckily have no qualms about "losing face" over a political situation. Any face that we might have saved was lost with the State Department's unprecedented white paper on China. Our Chinese policy has been a ghastly flasco, partly through our mistaken and partly beyond our control. The Communists have us just where they want us, and recognition is the best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New China | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...were mistaken in your editorial of November 15 when you said the Dean used to appoint men to the Student Council. What actually happened under the old Constitution was that a majority of elected members appointed seven or eight other members. The Dean had no more power over the Council then than he does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections and Appointments | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Day Down Under | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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