Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course is a useful one for acquainting the student with the detailed working of the national government and with the solutions which may be used to correct many of its deficiencies. The weekly investigations are not laborious and frequently interesting...
...Note Although still maintaining that the office of Ivy Orator requires a special ability not fostered by any existing undergraduate activity, the CRIMSON wishes to correct the impression that yesterday's editorial was directed at any one individual...
England. King Henry II of England (1133-89) was a coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...started with a most correct, not to say super-aristocratic, country week-end at which there was an unaccountable surfeit of gooseberry desserts and one unaccountably incorrect guest. Poor dear old-fashioned Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and she went about allaying her frightful suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly...
Ballots which do not have the correct number of votes, in the case of committees, will not be counted...