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Word: correctible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authored it is correct, even to slight details. He takes a few punches at me, to be sure, for which all the more power to him. I rate them, no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...fair to your readers and to keep the records in order, I would like to correct the impression your grand review of my book Last Man Around The World left with many people. You call it "the most enjoyable travelogue of the season" and while that will please my publisher, it doesn't please my friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...years ago similar tests were made of students, first as Freshmen and then four years later as Seniors, but these were designed simply to record the changes in the students' speech during their College career rather than to correct defects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 MAY TAKE SPEECH TESTS | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...TIME'S account of conditions in Sweden was based on letters from intelligent and informed Swedes in Stockholm. Secretary Dahlman, with official sources of information, is doubtless substantially correct on all points. But with Sweden in a tough spot, completely encircled by the Axis, it may be necessary that some things read one way in the official lexicon and another way to people on the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1941 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks." He holds a crayon in his fingers, names what he draws, copies a circle, matches three color forms. He can run, ride a tricycle, put on his shoes ("not always on the correct foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's the Baby's D. Q.? | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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