Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery that your publication is not particularly interested in getting the facts correct, has in no way lessened the enjoyment which we take in reading TIME. We do not, however, leave your publication lying about our rooms for the inspection of our English friends as their criticisms would force us to the admission either that American magazines are not so good as the English, or that TIME is not a good magazine as American magazines go. Both alternatives would be equally distasteful, and we therefore amuse ourselves with your magazine in private...
Referring to your report about the Eucharistic Congress recently held at Carthage and the very interesting resume of the history of that ancient city (TIME, p. 26, May 19), permit me to correct the quotation ascribed to the Roman senator Marcus Porcius Cato. The phrase as given "Delenda est Carthago" might have been used by Scipio Africanus when reporting the destruction of Carthage (however, he would not have used the "th" in the Latin name of that city...
...Correct Latin though scholarly Subscriber Andrae's version is, the version actually used by Cato, and accurately quoted by TIME, is also correct Latin. Let Subscriber Andrae consult his Allen & Greenough's, or any other standard Latin grammar, anent the gerundive construction...
...Correct! " cried the Dictator, then asked who had increased old age pensions, created the subsidy for working women about to have children, established obligatory worker insurance against tuberculosis. To his "who? who? who?" they answered in effect...
...debut in her life sufficiently pressing to curtail her college career. It is true the Committee on Admission has attempted to prevent this situation by asking all candidates how long they intend to remain if they get in, but most candidates have long since learned the correct answer to this question and to employ it regardless of sincerity. --Vassar Miscellany News...