Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been wondering whether many alumni and students of the University of Notre Dame: (Notre Dame, Ind.) will not write to correct your statement in the June 25 issue under Religion, article "ST. PETER...
...dead. Of his red-eyed clients he asked only the name, nationality and business of the deceased. Then he would step to the head of the newly turned grave and deliver eulogies of any desired length. He had practiced, he boasted, ten years to give his voice the correct hollowness of tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates four times. He threw in six Latin quotations free. He introduced a ten minute oration for $1. But modern Argentines continued to buy flowers, to shun...
Sirs ... As well call an Alabama Democrat a Republican, or, to bring it home to you, a New York Republican a Democrat, as call a (Godfearing Chi Psi a Chi Phi. If you correct mistakes, correct this one. If not please don't make it again, or if you do, make it in an account of our brother Charley Mitchell. . . . REV. R. M. LAUGHLIX...
...Senators (TIME, June 18), Iowa's Senator Murphy demanded: "Did you ever follow a plow?" "Yes, sir." ''Did you ever have mud on your boots?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know how hard it is to get a dollar out of the soil?" "Yes, sir." All these "correct" answers referred to the time when as a college boy Rex Tugwell used to work during vacations on his father's fruit farm in upper New York State. Since 1915 when he was graduated from Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, he has had a wholly academic career. In fact...
...schools that see some of their graduates fail in college for lack of a firm but friendly hand to offer guidance at the psychological moment. The test of fitness for college, say the university authorities, is the ability of the individual to take purposeful advantage to his opportunities. Correct reply the school heads, but follow each boy individually, especially at first, until he becomes oriented; or, in other words, until he knows what it's all about...