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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as you are read weekly by several millions, it is unfortunate so many have been misinformed by you (May 8, p. 66) how to pronounce "Juarez." It will be easier to get them on the right track if you will correct it before it grows any more, and after the boost you give the picture there is certain to be a lot of talk about it. There surely are many Spanish-speaking natives of these southern countries right there at Rockefeller Center who would gladly inform you it is not pronounced "Wha-race," but "Whar-s"-first syllable strongly...
...hard for me to conceive of any method of diffusing knowledge that would more exactly meet the purpose our first President had in mind. ... I am sure the heads of the Government departments will not fail to make good use of it ... to correct the kind of misinformation that is sometimes given currency for one reason or another. In some communities it is the unhappy fact that only through the radio is it possible to overtake loudly proclaimed untruths or greatly exaggerated half-truths...
...Hardly should be close to the word it modifies. Wrong: They hardly gave a thought. . . . Correct: They gave hardly a thought...
This week, in a book of 850 pages, Professor Opdycke pointed out and tried to correct the English-speaking world's most common errors. His book, less authoritative but more entertaining than famed H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, is titled Don't Say It!† Highlights...
...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...