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...check through the Harvard library of star photographs revealed that the group appeared also on long-exposure plates made in 1908, but only as a very faint patch of light, doubtlessly mistaken by the observers for general background unevenness or a faint blotch in the photographic emulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...victim of mistaken identity, Ferdinand F. B. Bruck '41 was almost on the threshold of the Union Friday evening before he discovered he had the wrong blind date for the Freshman Dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOY MEETS GIRL FOR '41 HOP; BUT IT'S NOT THE RIGHT GIRL | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...sure you're mistaken, sir. This JUST came in YESTERDAY. You won't find anything newer in the Square. Got lots of demand for this suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...Post Office Department find something illegal about Psychiana, but also for the fact that he was indicted and tried on charges that he made false statements in attempting to obtain a U. ,S. passport. He was acquitted in 1936. Doc Robinson, who, it turned out, had simply been mistaken about his birth-he is actually a British subject-was then arrested on a deportation warrant charging him with illegal entry into the U. S. Upon intervention of Idaho's Senator Borah, who stays at the Robinson home when in Moscow, the charge was dropped. His status regularized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visiting Kings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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