Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that in all sense of fairness you should do something to correct this impression...
Cary Grant on Hollywood: "Chivalry has no place on the streetcar marked Fame. . . . Your fellow passengers are intent on gouging out your eyes. ... If a woman gets in your way, correct Hollywood etiquette is to slug her before she slugs...
...Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...
Such exercises are worse than useless, many modern teachers believe, because 1) in real life most computations involve numbers under 100, 2) pupils can spend their time more profitably checking simpler computations, learning how to trace and correct their errors, 3) they need to learn the principle of "approximation": i.e., that perfect accuracy in any measurement is an unattainable ideal. Heaviest charge modern teachers lay against traditional math teaching is that its artificial exercises fail to teach pupils how to solve practical problems...
...Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak rates, while other crucially scarce metals are made even scarcer by the tightening pinch in mine labor, equipment, shipping space...