Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...CRIMSON regrets any confusion or consternation resulting from two proof mistakes in yesterday's article on requirements for enlistment in the armed forces. The first of the incorrect sentences appeared in the section on direct enlistment in the army and should have read, "Single men, 17 to 34, may onlist for three, four, five, or six years...
...square miles of Canadian territory on an overeager mapmaker who had merely tried to indicate U.S. bases in Newfoundland and U.S. weather and communications units stationed in northern Canada. Said the Air Force ponderously: "Any indication on maps or otherwise that the U.S. has jurisdiction over the area is incorrect...
...Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment was to warn other publishers that they were also, by implication, parties to the suit: "A substantial part of the charges ... are incorrect. Those which are true involve practices followed by many newspapers ... for years...
Last week the East Bengal government took prompt steps to deny the charges: "Incorrect reports ... no such complaint . . ." In their anger, the Pakistani officials had failed to notice that the Statesman's fish story appeared in the column, "Seventy-Five Years Ago Today...
...state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes...