Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other Axis victories were won northeast of Suez. Now both shows had not only flopped but threatened to cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing about Germans rushing to the rescue, and the Nazi official newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, announced: "The British are in error if they think that the Germans do not know their place, which has always been by the side of their brothers in arms. Their place is alongside Italy...
...studios every two months, pointing out the number of plugs she has given their stars and pictures both on the air and in her column. Cheerful about mistakes she has made, she has installed a gold-plated mechanical canary before her mike, gives herself the bird for every error...
...occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...duty of the literary man of the present to "reafirm the values in democracy worth fighting for," and not to arrive at "something amazingly like Fascism by the very criticism of the same Fascism." He accused Lewis Mumford and Waldo Frank of being guilty of the latter error, dismissing these men as "calamities of the present crisis...
They must also have eyes and memories more sensitive than a geologist's seismograph. The exigencies of movie production often require that successive scenes in the same room be shot weeks apart. The most accurate instruments used to record the intensity of light have a wide margin of error; so at least 25% of the factors involved in reconstructing a similar setting depend on the sensitivity of the cameraman. The experts say you have to "feel...