Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...course of the next two years," Buell believes, "America should be able to bring about a just peace in Europe, if it exercises its powers wisely." His program for mediation would avoid the error of Woodrow Wilson by requiring that the Allies agree with the U. S. on a world settlement beforehand. For getting in training for the grand event he suggests: 1) better intramural cooperation between Congress and the State Department, perhaps through a joint Congressional committee or the appearance of the Secretary of State before the Senate for full dress debates; 2) wartime economic measures including lower tariffs...
...double steal for the winning tally gave the Tigers their 6-5 win the day before as Captain Tom Healey pitched one-hit ball for six innings only to lose out when the Orange and Black counted twice in each of the last three innings. A walk, an error, and a scratch hit filled the sacks in the last frame and set the stage for the double steal on which Warner Allen came home with the winning...
Umpires Tyler and Mead were both preoccupied, one watching a close play at first as Tully reached on an error, the other closely scrutinizing home plate as Pitchford came in to score. Neither of them saw Buckley leave second base and head almost on a direct line for the plate. In fact most of the spectators and even Coach Stahl were not aware of the play until the Penn coach and players stormed onto the field. Despite their objections the run counted but it was not enough to make up the seven run deficit insscurred in the first two innings...
...fact that in 1917 our nation was "duped"? That we went to war through universal error? That President Eliot, Professor Perry, Wilson and all the rest of the political and intellectual elite who urged war were grossly deceived...
...Dazzy Vance pitched a no-hitter for Brooklyn, but he yielded a run (on a walk and an error...