Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Marsh's critical letter to the editor (TIME, Sept. 28) on the inadvisability of using rubber panties as a gas mask was very thorough and correct except for one thing. During a gas attack, he advocates staying indoors and lying on the floor with head in arms. Since all war gases are heavier than air they descend to the lowest level possible, and in this case the lowest level in the room is the floor. It would seem that a better position would be to sit or stand in the room. STEPHEN E. ULRICH 1st Lieut., C.W.S. Chicago...
...Thirty-Eighth. To most observers this seemed, simply, a hell of a way to run a war. There were many signs that Ambassador Standley was correct in worrying about what he did not know, that U.S. aid-to-Russia had been wretchedly managed. Soviet officials in London admitted that Britain had met her pledges during the nine months ending last June, but said that the U.S. had delivered only 75%-and that this figure, far from meaning cargoes reaching Russia, included deliveries accepted by Soviet agents in U.S. ports...
Before the flight recorder was introduced, test temperatures and stresses were jotted down by the pilot from a few relatively inaccurate dashboard instruments. Plane builders thought they were lucky if a pilot managed to get eight or nine readings in five minutes-correct to the nearest 10 or 15 degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
...Ensign Borker is correct. Admiral James at three (in 1885) was a winning curlyhead whose passion was soap bubbles. His grandfather, the great Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais, one day bribed little Willie to pose for him in exchange for hearing a fairy tale. An excellent likeness, the painting was finished in several weeks -minus soap bubbles. Those were painted from less evanescent crystal spheres...
Divided into many sections, the book will contain pertinent information on military etiquette, specifying when to salute an officer, when to salute the flag, and the correct time and manner of wearing the uniform...