Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places in space and extensions in time began "to creep out of popular mythology into the minds of educated people" after the Reformation and Renaissance. Heaven means meeting the Reality which is God, and for this, human souls need special training to free the will and judgment from error and perversion. If the training is not completed in life, it must be finished after death; "that is why any attempt to hold the spirits 'earthbound'-by 'calling them up' at seances, or even by importunate and possessive grief-is to do them wrong by delaying their...
...that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which is too low for the present generation of students...
...magazine (circ. 115,000), which has been consistently critical of U.S. foreign policy. It should have read OUR GENTLE DIPLOMACY, said shocked Editor-Publisher Max Ascoli, who, with his wife, one of the Chicago Rosenwalds, makes up the magazine's deficit. The Reporter cropped the printer's error from all newsstand copies, but all but 15,000 subscribers' copies had already been mailed...
...opposed, had accepted favors from French secret service agents. Adenauer dropped defamation charges when the magazine announced publicly that it had not intended to libel him. But as a result of Der Spiegel's refusal to pay court costs, on grounds that to pay would constitute admission of error, the case is still rumbling on. Augstein-an influential member of the Free Democratic Party, which is more extreme than any other non-Communist party in urging unification with East Germany-admits that he may have carried the feud with Adenauer too far. Though he now agrees with some Adenauer...
...most eloquent, hard-hitting critics of the ratings are the services themselves-when speaking of their competitors. Nielsen, for example, argues that human error, bias and forgetfulness work against the accuracy of the others' methods. He says also that their samples are usually unreliable. In special surveys, he has tested the accuracy of the other methods by the yardstick of his own and says that all three fall wide of the mark. Nielsen's rivals-who also rap each other's techniques-seize on the fact that Nielsen's national system measures the tuning of sets...