Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iulia, in what was left of Rumanian Transylvania, he brought stirring news to 100,000 cheering Guardists, soldiers and civilians. "I went to Berlin and Rome for Transylvanians," said Premier Antonescu, then quoted the Führer's answer: "On your shoulders rests the duty to repair and correct any injustice Rumania suffered...
...extensive an appreciation of himself and his gifts as had the late Edmund Clarence Stedman, who believed that the sun merely rose to admire his poetry and was so reluctant to set at the end of the day . . . that it lingered and lingered and . . . was never able to keep correct time during his stay in the earth." But the mind craves its equals. Twain met only one. One day an unknown young man named Rudyard Kipling trudged up to the Twain farm and sat down. They talked. Twain said afterwards: "[Kipling] knows all that can be known, and I know...
...typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...
...throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough, the George Washington, many another mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff, a refugee from the Tsar 50 years ago, a onetime radical, worked on experiments to correct its sway. So did engineers at the University of Washington, where a $20,000 scale model had been constructed and placed in a wind tunnel...
...Department chairman expects an even sharper decline in the amount of written work. To correct papers intelligently, and to give undergraduates valuable advice about their preparation, a rare brand of assistant is required. With departmental budgets declining and the College saddled with straight-jacket tenure rules, many would-be teachers probably will not stay here long enough to become expert and experienced instructors...