Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman of breeding is opposed to teaching correct or "standard" speech to the masses, as we try to do here...
Last week, as 1940 corporation earnings reports came out, Wall Street's judgment proved correct on one score: Profits were not keeping pace with production. To steelmakers and railroads, whose heavy capitalizations give them an advantage under the excess-profits tax, 1940 was a banner year (TIME, Feb. 10). But many a consumer industry found it a year of record sales, record costs, record taxes, and only moderate profits...
...readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test. In all, answer 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 60; Time Reader scores have averaged 89.7. This test is given under the honor system...
Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2-standing for Roosevelt-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...
...sending there many of its ablest members to investigate and help this project. But its most important and effective work is done with American and foreign Jews who intend to live in this country. It is primarily concerned with teaching Jews what it believes to be the correct attitudes they should adopt towards democracy and their future. Outside of its councils at which many prominent men speak, it organizes youth movements and tries to educate the Jewish community from within. It educates by a method of "learning through doing"; it has summer camps at which young Jews can learn trades...