Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME [MARCH 30] CITES KDKA OFF AIR FOR AN HOUR DURING RECENT FLOOD ACCOUNT POWER FAILURE. THIS STATEMENT IN ERROR. WITH EXCEPTION OF ONE 15-SECOND POWER FLUCTUATION, KDKA WAS NOT OFF AIR DUE TO LOSS OF POWER OR ANY OTHER REASON DURING FLOOD PERIOD. THIS MAY BE CONFIRMED BY WEST PENN POWER COMPANY AND OUR RECORDS. DWIGHT A. MYER Operations Manager KDKA Pittsburgh...
Sirs: Your account of the Pittsburgh flood [TIME, March 30] is excellent. I expected it would be. One little error has crept in. This is not surprising for the same error appeared in one of the Pittsburgh dailies. I refer to the statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged...
...Washington disclosed that President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University had agreed to pay $32,962 for deficiencies in his 1932 income tax statement, which claimed losses of $194,412 in sales of Kreuger & Toll stock. When newshawks asked him if he would give further information about the error, the 79-year-old taxpayer snapped a decisive...
Last week a book was returned to Widener ten years overdue. The "culprit" was Robert P. Blake, director of the University Library, (of which Widener is a unit.) Because of a clerical error it was not charged to him when he took...
...realize, with special clarity, how much in error are those theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience. Even the Great Newton could not free himself from this error ("Hypotheses non forgo...