Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Congratulations to your editors for the five paragraphs about D. D. Palmer, discoverer of chiropractic, which appeared in your issue of March 18, under Medicine. I didn't know D. D. was a storekeeper, but evidently your reporter is unaware of the fact that an Electroencephaloneuromentimpograph (correct spelling- check your story) is used at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as well as by the chiropractic profession. . . . Dr. B. J. Palmer's instrument is a five-channel instrument, the first of its kind. Bellevue's is a three-channel instrument, patterned after Dr. Palmer...
...defect in imagination was one of the first faults the St. John's planners noticed in the students, and to correct it they have encouraged dramatics music, and the reading of poetry. They feel this should supplement the "sharp and orderly thinking" provided by their disciplines...
Said he, "Mrs. Webster, how often must I correct you? You are astonished. I am surprised...
...second problem in developing accurate, clear communication between the Government and the Navajos was not handled by us at all, but by Mr. Rudolf Modley, who should receive public credit. It is not quite correct to state that Navajo, as it exists, can't find a word for such terms as "sheep unit." The trouble was that the interpreters, misunderstanding such terms, used the wrong terms in Navajo. Mr. Modley gave statements involving all such new terms to an interpreter, who passed them on in Navajo to several other English-speaking Navajos. These in turn told Mr. Modley...
...golf club with an electric light in the head which flashes when the player makes a correct swing...