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...said that this statement was based on his personal opinion. He testified that in his opinion there were unmistakable danger signs in the air, that Commander Lansdowne made an error in judgment in not steering around the storm, and that the destruction of the ship was caused by the bursting of gas cells because a number of safety valves had been removed (all points that the survivors of the disaster deny). Lieutenant Rosendahl, one of the survivors, questioned...
...Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its conclusions...
...have just read the excerpt from my letter in your issue of Aug. 31. It may interest you to know that when I wrote the Editor of the Christian Century, he excused his publication of the error by the fact that TIME had printed it, and that no denial had appeared...
...next morning the Norwegian maid who had served the dinner informed the lady of the house that the guest was entirely in error. 'I was a maid in the Ibsen household when The Wild Duck was written, and I know all about it.' And she proceeded to tell the story...
Many scientists shared this enthusiasm, holding that, if there had been an error in the hydrographic charts, it was so enormous that it must have been detected long before. Greater skeptics shrugged, pointed out that the charts were indeed old, awaited the findings of a French naval commission to see if a continent was arising or if the discovery. was merely an unknown reef...