Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times (London) has no Sunday edition. The Sunday Times, which TIME seems to have confused with it, is an entirely different publication, owned by Lord Camrose's Allied Newspapers, Ltd. There is no connection whatever between the two newspapers. I feel sure that TIME will want to correct its error, no less for its own sake than ours. LOUIS E. HINRICHS...
...Budget Director Bell sat beside him as prompter while Secretary Morgenthau lolled silently on a couch. Looking for "jokers" the correspondents asked searching questions to which the President would sometimes answer "Yes," the Budget Director "No."' After consultation Director Bell's answer was generally chosen as the correct interpretation for the Press...
Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly...
...chess which requires a system of eight boards. Members of the American Astronomical Society, convened in Princeton last week, relaxed from their more abstruse preoccupations with a set of 14 "true-or-false" questions cooked up by a colleague. Scoring was on the basis of plus one for a correct answer, minus two for a wrong one. Highest score: 8. Sample questions...
...midnight hour approached excitement crept into the voices of the telephone girls who tell you the correct time. "Happy New Year," we said when one of them finally announced 12 o'clock. "Thanks," she said, "and a Happy New Year to you." Bells began to ring, whistles to toot and three happy drunks came tripping up Mount Auburn Street singing "The Music Goes Round and Round." We went...