Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that after two months of College they still feel like outsiders in the Houses with which they are affiliated. Part of their uneasiness is due to inevitable uncertainty about the future; for this, the University can offer only advice and an aspirin. But it is not too late to correct the College's failure to make the Houses an active medium for the stability formerly provided by the unit of the Freshman Class...
...slim out: raises may be allowed unions in order to correct gross inequalities and substandards of living (which WLB left undefined), and to "aid in the effective prosecution...
...With correct musical treatment, claims Burris-Meyer, slumps in the normal production curve can be straightened so that work goes on at an almost uniform speed (see cut). But his findings go much further than that. He asserts that in a number of experiments his music reduced tardiness on Monday morning from 22.75 to 2.75%-presumably because it makes workers enjoy their work more...
Jugged-Celebrity-of-the-Week: lithe, blonde Cinemactress Frances Farmer, arrested for drunken driving. At the station house she demurely gave her age as 15. The officer made it 29 (correct). She told police: "You bore me." The bored police made no published retort...
...This office wishes to correct a wide spread and thoroughly unfounded rumor that enlistments in V-1 and V-7 will close on November 1. The Office of Naval Officer Procurement has informed us that applications will be received until further notice. No deadline for the immediate future seems to be contemplated, but it is possible that enlistments may be closed without any advance notice...