Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correct a substantial misrepresentation of my position concerning the Atlantic Pact, as reported in the CRIMSON, last Saturday. On previous occasions, I have suffered similar misrepresentations by CRIMSON reporters in silence. This time the issue is of such magnitude that I am forced to enter a disclaimer...
...other hand, the great Protestant theologians are perfectly correct and more satisfying than the Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
...Secret. The Government's cold and correct prosecutors called a series of cold and correct G-men to the stand to present a damning case. As a Justice Department political analyst, Barnard-educated Judy Coplon had kept her desk loaded with scores of secret documents; she had been trailed by the FBI, been seen keeping clandestine appointments with a Soviet United Nations employee, Valentin A. Gubichev...
...TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot follow the advice of accepting all the criticism of my work as correct. If I did, I would be deceiving the party, hypocritically saying 'I agree with the criticism,' when I do not agree...
...Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain of errors of a reformist trend-which naturally also means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly solved by Marxism-Leninism...My mistake was that I did not recognize right away that my critics were correct. But better late than never...