Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is to acknowledge and thank you . . . for your interest in my behalf. You are correct, this is not my picture...
...your issue of Aug. 27 you pay a well deserved tribute to Raymond M. Hood. I knew him very well. He was a lovable companion and a splendid man to work with, and were he here today he would be the first to take up his pen to correct a grave injustice which you have done to his associate, John Mead Howells...
...host, a Mr. Stamm, is a retired explorer and practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself in a diving suit with claw fingers, choked his guest to death, for insufficient reasons...
...teacher hands her pupils stiff cards covered with numbered squares. She gives them a "choose-the-correct-answer" test in which they are to check the proper numbers. The test over, the teacher runs the cards through what looks like an adding machine. The cards emerge with a red mark in every proper square. Krexit enables teacher and pupils to see mistakes at a glance...
Tweeds have come off the golf course into the drawing room, are now correct for tea. Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn...