Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read the correct meaning into the above, TIME errs. I think the first Judiciary Act, creating the Supreme Court, embodied a clause upholding such power. I think John Marshall, at the Convention of Virginia, said the power of the Supreme Court should prevail over that of Congress in constitutionality issues wherein there was no reasonable doubt. I think James Madison's record and minutes of the Philadelphia confab that created the Constitution show that this power was fully discussed and intentionally embodied into the Constitution (also the power to ignore the opinions of the high court when Congress deemed...
Preparing to celebrate the end of his first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health. The statistics are correct. But, in a hard little book (Heil Hunger!-Alliance Books-$1.75), Dr. Martin Gumpert, former head of the City Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Berlin, now a refugee in Manhattan, made Dr. Conti's figures prove an ugly picture of deterioration in Naziland. Besides Dr. Conti's figures Dr. Gumpert also used other official Government figures and many hiding in German medical...
...struck me as being so completely shallow and without not only comprehension of what the composer wanted, but what could be done with the score itself. Leopold Stokowski is often accused (and Justly so) of rendering Bach in a manner quite unlike what the composed intended, or what the "correct" interpretation is conceived to be. But at least, he almost always gives a rendition that is musicically fascinating no matter how you may disagree with his interpretations...
...easy to find someone to tag Harvard education as "over-specialized," as it is to get Martin Dies to say "un-American." But the criticism is undoubtedly justified. The Student Council in a recent report sought to correct excessive concentration by backing the "area" proposal, which would involve distribution of courses among three divisions--natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Perhaps an institutional reform along these lines will take place some day soon; meanwhile the Class of 1943 must do its own reforming. Its members should select their distribution courses with an eye to sampling each of the three areas...
...that Bacon wrote Shakespeare if you'll tell me who wrote Bacon." It is also said that one night he met two students, who were trying to sing "Frankie and Johnny." "You have it all wrong," he said. Then he stood on the sidewalk and personally gave them the correct version...