Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing to correct the impression which has arisen in regard to the Undergraduates Laundry. Your article of yesterday implied that students are no longer connected with the enterprise. That is not true. All the men connected with the organization continue to derive revenue just as they have in the past; by commissions on the volume of business done week by week. In other words, about $1600 in commissions will be paid to the ten salesmen who are members of the organization. And the same arrangement is secured by contract for next year...
...making up this pamphlet it serious error was made in the sequence of the pages. To read the text as it was written it is necessary to observe the following order: Pages 3-36 are correct as they stand; from page 36 go to 42; read first on this page the section which is upside down; read the rest of the page; read pages 43-45, go back to page 41; read page 41; from page 41 go back to page 37; read from page...
...Geneva agitated agents of Dictator Mussolini hastily withdrew from circulation last week an Italian map on which it appeared that Power of Trinity I was correct when he protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear...
...following passage: "If a man is able and willing to work, but can get no work, provision for his security must be made. I do not mean the dole. The dole is a rotten thing!" What he did mean, the Premier said, was unemployment insurance-that being the correct name in England for what is loosely called the dole...
...discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind, his should will split its infinitives forever, and his spirit will be but a dangling participle. Certainly he will never read Mackail...