Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
...Dyke silk is grown at Lullingstone Castle, Kent, rushed to Macclesfield (neckties) to be "thrown" (twisted for proper thread thickness), then to Braintree to be boiled and dyed the correct shade of imperial purple. The fabric is woven on medieval looms by an enthusiastic, slim-fingered girl named Lily Lee, at the rate of three yards per week. By last week Lily Lee had woven 42 yards, one yard more than enough for the three royal robes...
...nearly so long as the correct figure. Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope already penetrates .500 million light-years into space, and Caltech's 200-incher is expected to pierce 1,500 million...
Many a blue nebula has been discovered, shining by light from a hot blue star. If the reflection theory is correct, red nebulae should also exist, with comparatively cool red stars as illuminators. Last August Russian-born, dimple-chinned Director Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory announced discovery of the first known red nebula. It fans out from the red super giant star Antares to a distance of about two quadrillion miles...
...dark room, try to keep their minds blank. Then Travis & Gottlober and two other researchers tried to see if they could tell which of the oscillograms came from the same brains. In Science last week they reported that in a long series of tests, they made 352 correct identifications, 20 errors. This was accuracy of 94%, much higher than could be explained by chance. Moreover, they improved with practice until at the last of four trials all four researchers made 100% correct scores. Criteria they used for matching were the frequency, form and amplitude of the waves...