Word: correct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed the Senator genially, "any diplomatic secret...
...reader of LIFE, I recognize it as being ostensibly devoted to the pictorial arts, and am willing to permit it an artist's freedom in the use of words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...That is not only the correct version but it also rings true. Coach Pond is worried to death over the traditional contest which may be a close game with a narrow margin of victory. In an exclusive statement to a well-attended interview he said, "Following my instructions Yale will use a deceptive offense and an iron defense. Our line will be: two Ends, two Tackles, a pair of Guards, and a hard Center." Neither coach will hazard a prediction, but both men flatly deny rumors...
According to 150-Pound coach Bert Haines this indoor practice is far more important than the outside rowing. For it is here under the eagle eyes of the coaches that the prospective Varsity oarsman smooths out his technique. Faults which are difficult to correct in outdoor rowing can be easily corrected indoors...
...life of the U. S. seems to be unduly favored. It is not their contention that rye or bourbon should be specified, but that it might be possible to use merely the term 'whiskey and soda' which . . . would, even in pictures with an English setting, be more correct since it is the form the British...