Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels disgraced" by the fact that he reprinted the story that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains another error of which he is still unaware: Rumanian Pianist Dinu Lipatti died of what his doctor called lympho-granulomatosis (Hodgkin's disease), not of rheumatoid arthritis...
Productivity is a key talking point for both sides in steel bargaining. Last month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that steelworker productivity had dropped 6.2% from 1956 through 1958, and most of the drop (5.1%) was in 1958. Answered Dave McDonald last week: "An enormous error." He calculated the respective declines at only 3% and 1.9%. B.L.S. hastily double-checked, admitted with embarrassment a "clerical error." A bureaucrat had substituted the total of stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week...
Each team scored once in the emotional first inning. In the second, with two out, the Crimson exploded. After George Harrington had doubled, Al Martin walked, and John Davis singled, Boulris wrought his revenge on Fuller by belting a three-run triple. Boulris scored on an error to give the Crimson four runs for the inning, and a lead which the vasity never relinquished throughout the game...
...game, a tight one for the first four innings, began to show signs of a rout in the bottom of the fifth, when four singles, an error, and a sacrifice fly accounted for three runs. Malinowski remained in the game, and gave up four more scores in the last frames
With Tufts ahead 2 to 0 in the second, Tom Bone's walk started a Yardling rally that put the visitors ahead to stay. Successive hits by Marc Kolden and Bob Sellig, an infield error, a walk, and two line singles by Dave Morse and Phil Bernstein scored six tallies. Then, after complaining long and loud about a called ball, Jumbo pitcher Bob Fuller was ejected by umpire Fred Lawrence...