Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot," he said, "accept the views that a power is entitled to possess naval forces generally superior to those of others on account of the vastness of its overseas possessions and the extensiveness of the lines of communication it has to protect. If such a view were correct, how could one explain why there should be parity between Britain and the United States?" Nagano went home, Japan completed its present fleet-on a ratio limited not by treaty but by Japan's ability to compete industrially...
...curious thing about the three official flags is that two of them are incorrectly made. Even the flag pictured on this year's Freshman Catalogue is unofficial. The correct flag should have the word "VERITAS" equally distributed upon three yellow and white books. All the letters are supposed to be drawn with serifs, and this is the reason that the two flags are unofficial. One has no serifs at all, and the ones on the other are too short...
Grinned a soldier-actor when he picked up a whiskey bottle: "Hmmm-there musta been officers here." Other soldiers went through the village demonstrating correct procedure, leaving suspicious buildings to specially trained troops...
Believing that the honor of the University if not of the Dragon Lady is at stake, the CRIMSON has therefore decreed that it will present to the first person who brings the correct solution of the puzzle to the President's desk one large can of beer--provided only that he beats Milton Caniff to the draw...
...central front, based below Voronezh and aimed roughly at the Germans' key point of Kharkov, the Russians launched another new attack. The General's diagnosis was indeed correct. From that area no reserves could be safely moved -and none could be added, because other fronts were in distress. Yet here was potentially the greatest threat of all to the integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind...