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Word: correctible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 2-standing for Roosevelt-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...help Time readers and their friends check their knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 58; Time Reader scores have averaged 84. This test is given under the honor system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Richard A. Harlow, curator of Oology, and incidentally coach of the football team, was undisposed to gamble his professional reputation by hazarding a guess on the correct Latin name, but was of the opinion that it was some sort of pigeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Foundling Left Deserted on Crimson Doorstep | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

Margaret Fuller Ossoli was the Original American Bluestocking. She tried to model herself on Goethe; she taught Emerson the necessity of joining action with thought and the correct pronunciation of German (he remembered the latter); she edited The Dial, the house organ of Transcendentalism; she was outtalked at last by fuliginous Thomas Carlyle; she embodied at its most intense the Transatlantic cultural hunger of the Eastern Seaboard. This is a full-length portrait of her, recording every detail from the carbuncle ring she wore as her symbol of masculinity to almost every severe headache she had. It makes a period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bluestocking | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Thayer picked 729, which was within two numbers of the correct figure, 731, written on the back of ducat to the dance. Most of the yardlings were suspicious of a hoax of one sort or another, and only about 300 of them took a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Seer Picks Magic Number, Wins Way to Hop | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

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