Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radiator's Reed defends his orthodoxy by saying: "Only the Master Plumbers have the knowledge, experience and skill necessary to protect the health of the nation by correct installation." The industry's No. 1 d-t-uer, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert Wood, countered: "Henry Reed has been so damn wrong for the last ten years that it's pitiful." In his attacks on the construction industry, Trustbuster Thurman Arnold has befriended the d-t-u's, broadened their market...
...must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked his heels in the real sloppy Viennese fashion, he was heavy-lipped, and appeared always to be unhappy...
Bitterly the Italian High Command had to correct these reports. The "Terribili" were not marching eastward. The High Command did not stress the fact that they were running westward, farther and farther into Libya. The prisoners were not British, they were Italian-31,546 of them (so far counted), including 1,626 officers. It was not a Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British...
...historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...
...Crimson charges that "very few of the actual questions asked are reprinted." This is untrue since 11 out of the 12 poll questions were reported on. For the sake of the record, here are the correct figures. "This is not our fight," 16.8 per cent. "Let Britain save herself this time," 9.5 per cent. "A Nazi victory won't affect our position," 3 per cent. "I like the British and want to help them," 20 per cent. "A British victory is essential to our national defense," 37 per cent. The one result that we did not print, for reasons...