Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through a typographical error TIME, not Mrs. Davies, mislaid four of her years. Her correct...
...wish to correct the statement in TIME, Dec. 16, that the University of Wichita's only claim to fame is its Omnibus College. Wichita University has a much greater claim to fame in the fact that the Dean of the College of Fine Arts is the foremost contemporary U. S. composer, Thurlow Lieurance, master of Indian music...
...correct a misstatement in TIME, Dec. 16, p. 19, concerning the "liar" charge against Major Berry...
...Members differ emphatically on the correct pronunciation of the society's name, classicists holding out for the pure Greek Phee Bayta Kahppa, the 0 B K Senate insisting on the completely Anglicized Phy Beeta Kappa. To the disgust of purists on both sides of the fence, the National Council seems to be on the verge of authorizing the common hybrid Phy Bayta Kappa...
...Government's election victory, good for another five years, The Illustrated London News made graphically the point that since 1900 the Labor or Socialist vote has grown in the United Kingdom from a trickle to a stream to a great river. This illustration (see cut) was meant to correct the comfortable error of many Britons who are wont to speak of "the pendulum" of votes swinging alternately to Right and Left but always tending to subside in the Middle. This error is fostered by the British polling system which traditionally operates to keep the distribution...