Word: correct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This conclusion, if correct, constituted one of the week's large pieces of news. Nominee Hoover is the heir of the Coolidge Administration. The Coolidge attitude on Boulder Dam has never been positively known. Toward the so-called Power Trust, President Coolidge has not, however, been cold. He pocket-vetoed a Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most...
Small Fanny Garrison helped her father correct proofs for many an issue of The Liberator. She was with him when he conferred about freeing the slaves with John Brown, Wendell Phillips, Samuel...
...endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were...
...received an honorary degree from Lafayette College-that may be so, but he is not the only one. Charles Henry Breed, Headmaster of Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J. and many another, also received an honorary degree from the same place, and I wish you would correct your omission in the near future...
...convinces himself prominence in a single sport is worth abandonment of his scholastic hopes, the business man who decides in favor of practices yielding immediate profit, the politician who discards platform policies to enter an oil cabal may all be following the path that seems to them the irrefutable correct one Philosophers and moralists, confronted with this ethical dilemma, have had recourse to various phrasings of the Golden Rule, saying that there is a distinction between "I want to" and "I thought", that we cannot escape the fact of conscience, and in effect that we should act as we believe...