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...error. Theodore Douglas Robinson is Assistant Secretary of the Navy. - ED. †An error. TIME reproves no subscriber. - ED. *A mistake. There is no Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield. The League's headquarters are at Westerville, Ohio...
...tabulated statistics of a baseball game, commonly known as the "box score" are from seven to fourteen columns of figures (depending on the detail with which the game is reported). The last column on the right is headed "E," which stands for "error." Here are recorded the players' single "mechanical mistakes"?the dropped fly, the fumbled grounder, the ball that should have been fielded and was not. The story of a baseball game is told largely in terms of hits by the attacking side and errors by the defense...
...CRIMSON regrets deeply to admit that error like a foul, cankerous growth crept unnoticed and uninvited into its editorial sanctum to contaminate, if not totally infect a comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets...
Another common error is in stating there were 13 colonies at the time of the Revolutionary war. Pennsylvania was not a colony of Great Britain in the same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration...
Hospital records showed that before the original "male" of the birth docket had been written an "f-e." Such penciled metamorphosis made Mrs. Sam Smith suspect that she was nursing a changeling. That was not her child, miscalled boy by clerical error. The other Smiths were authentically parents of boys, and were leaving the hospital. But Mrs. Sam Smith would not leave the hospital until she had a boy. Mr. Sam Smith hired a lawyer...