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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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There was one error, however . . . You say: "He [Barlow] not only persuaded them [U.S. companies] to take ads, but to put up most of his $750,000 initial capital." Actually, Visión's stockholders include no companies, and are instead 27 private investors (some of whom, naturally, are businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...found that the RCA system was unsatisfactory both as to "color fidelity" and "texture." It described RCA color itself as "soft," reported the system to be "exceedingly complex," and noted that a "time error of 1/11,000,000 of a second results in color contamination." As for the CTI system, it was "unduly complex"; it had a "serious line-crawl problem, its picture texture was not satisfactory," and there was "great doubt" of CTI's compatibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Rome last week. Those who regarded his article in the Jesuit fortnightly Civiltâ Cattolica as something new in Roman Catholic thought, he said, were wrong. Father Messineo's conclusion had been that "tolerance is a duty of both individuals and states towards those who have accepted error and profess error." This tolerance, reasoned Messineo, rises out of the respect due to the human person and to his God-given right of exercising his reason and working out his own destiny. "It logically follows," he wrote, "that there is a right to tolerance, and that such a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Right to Tolerance | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...carried a feature article on the Debate Council's commendable record during the past year. The Ivy League championship and the number of victories speak for themselves. It is unfortunate, however, that the author did not check all of his facts. As a result, the article contains a gross error of fact and omissions that are misleading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Purge in Debate Council | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Actually," he said, "I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover the error in my past. Then there is a slight pause in the conversation, a lifting of the eyebrows, an exchange of meaning glances, and somebody always says. "You never told us you were a Harvard...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: University Retains Close Contact With Alumni; Reunions Bring Graduates Back To Cambridge | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

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