Word: correct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR SENSE OF FAIRNESS SHOULD CAUSE YOU TO WISH TO CORRECT A REFERENCE TO THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL IN THE SEPT. 7 ISSUE OF TIME YOU SAY JOURNAL THREE MONTHS AGO GOT OUT OF RECEIVERSHIP WITH THE HELP OF REPUBLICAN MONEY THE FACT IS THE PAPER GOT OUT OF RECEIVERSHIP OVER FOUR YEARS AGO RECENT PURCHASERS ARE LOCAL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. THE PAPER HAS BEEN TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE REPUBLICAN. NO OUTSIDE REPUBLICAN MONEY USED IN PURCHASE...
...Miami Beach, and so debilitate himself in that winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp. Patrons showing up in "trances" are warned that they must pay their own attendants...
...eminent in various departments of knowledge would impart a dignity and stability to the whole institution, far more effectual against attacks from without than the utmost amount of privilege and protection." Attacks from without--the phrase has a modern ring. Events proved that the Commission of 1850 was correct in its statement, the changes which they advocated restored the confidence of the nation in its two ancient institutions. They could not foresee, however, the reluctance of certain sections of public opinion to welcome the restoration of the true university tradition. They did not realize how willingly the public often follows...
Occasionally with a first edition deadline approaching, a reporter would get a little panicky and send in a story which he hadn't fully digested and toned down to the correct level. One reporter on a Boston paper sent in a column of involved technicalities, featured by a formula containing a number of "n'a", "x'a", and "y's". The first edition carried the story, but it was rewritten for succeeding editions after the city editor had called up and asked, "Say, what the hell is this stuff, anyway. We don't know what it means...
...bald Marc Rucart, onetime journalist, now Minister of Justice in the Blum Cabinet, had an important announcement for humanitarians throughout the world last week. After months of private discussion the new Left Wing French Cabinet was about to correct a longstanding evil. The penal colony in French Guiana, that "abscess on the body colonial," will progressively be abolished. Within a few months, a mixed commission from the Ministries of Colonies and Justice will be sent to Guiana to recommend the details. Until the present Paris scheme matures, no more convicts will be sent out to rot in the tropics...