Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Praises "B" for your article, "The Era of Non-B"! How could you omit the terrible traffic of textbooks in the field of education, the area of lingo-jargon, grammatical error, meaningless repetition of four words (fundamental, needs, experiences, objectives), padded with graphs, charts, tables and diagrams that imply the reader may not comprehend the value of the paragraph, and therefore might catch...
Last spring Olson submitted a new bid for this year of $4,100, and his contract was not renewed. But long before this error, Olson had made another. When five average-bright boys in his room shunned all reading, Olson remembered The Stranger's powers. To get them interested in reading, he gave the lads paperback editions of the book, assigned the first chapter. In short order, one 13-year-old's mother discovered "obscene" passages. She called another mother, who called the school board, which called the state police, who arrested Olson. In his nearby home town...
...serenely circled the earth, a control station some 300 miles below, in Kodiak, Alaska, took charge. On the satellite's 17th orbit, up to it came an electronic command: Release the instrument capsule. The order triggered a complex, irrevocable sequence of 22 events which permitted no margin for error. Jets first swept the 1,800-lb. satellite's nose downward until it pointed to earth at a 60° angle. Pins kicked loose, freeing the 349-lb. instrument capsule for its descent to earth, and the newly installed gas jets immediately set it spinning at 60 r.p.m...
...recommendation was a major victory for the C. & 0. President Walter Touhy, who last month flew to Switzerland, spent nine days pleading his case. Central President Alfred E. Perlman, apparently more confident of victory, made a tactical error: he merely sent his financial vice president, Walter Grant, who spent four days talking to the bankers...
When Adon Taft goes to church, someone is forever mistaking him for the minister. The error is understandable because Taft looks and acts like one. He is tall, deacon-grave, bespectacled, softspoken; above his generous brow, from which the hair is steadily receding, there sometimes seems to hover a nimbus of reflected light. He neither smokes nor drinks, goes to church 200 times a year, is married to a church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman...