Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
...almost so many words that the Department expects soon to control all agricultural activities except the minor details. And further on in the article you suggest that through the control of agriculture, control of all business will be obtained. If this is true and I believe you are correct, it means that the Government will have the power of complete control over every individual life in the nation. If that is to come to pass in America why should we fight Hitler...
With virtuous vigor Franklin Roosevelt last week vetoed a $320,000,000 defense-highway appropriation bill. Reason : he had asked for only $125,000,000 to correct critical deficiencies in the strategic network of military highways; pork-hungry Congress had blown up the measure; worse, had changed the bill's idea. The $320,000,000 was not to be distributed according to defense needs but by the hoary Federal-aid formula - based on population, area, etc. The Senate happily overrode the President's veto, 57-to-19, well over the required two-thirds majority. The House just barely...
...last week the picture was correct: a great expanse of camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...
TIME said: "TIME was technically correct in calling Rush Holt the youngest man ever 'elected' to the Senate, etc." TIME was riot even remotely "technically" correct. John H. Eaton was the youngest man to be elected or to serve in the U.S. Senate. . . . [After his original appointment] Eaton was elected by the legislature of Tennessee in January 1819, at which time he lacked almost 18 months of having reached the constitutional age of 30 years...