Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of bank debits may be due to maladjustments in the total commercial picture which other signs and portents, whether of sales or production, do not catch. Some manufacturers, for example, may be having a slump in collections. Declining bank debits have corrected themselves before without serious consequences to business. They have also preceded serious business declines, as in 1937 and 1939. If underlying maladjustments do not soon correct themselves, the trend of bank debits may be ominous. Last week they provided a warning footnote to the cheerful uptrend of other indexes...
...first demonstration had marched such men as Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California...
Approaching the target, the bombardier leaves his seat, crouches or lies down flat over the bombsight just below his machine gun. Quickly he checks the spirit levels to be sure that the ship is parallel to the ground, other settings that correct for the speed of the plane and the wind drift (which slows a bomb, speeds or deflects it). Then he puts his eye to the eyepiece and takes his sight on his target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well...
Undergraduates were not so startled. They guessed the target of President Ruthven's ire: the campus' noisy chapter of the American Student Union, which had spent a busy spring denouncing U. S. "war plans," and failing to denounce the Communazis. Last week their guess was proved correct and President Ruthven showed that he was not fooling. To a number of Michigan students (the A. S. U. said nine), home for vacation, he sent a curt lote: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University that you cannot be readmitted to the University." Others got warnings. Pressed...
...Famed conman and gambler, shot in 1898 in a Skagway brawl. * Correct "Labor omnia vincit...