Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow the alumni authorities will hear the reasoning of the Saltonstall Committee. They should heed also the AVC and Council statements. If the officials believe that the student stand is correct, then the only logical course will be to reject the Saltonstall Committee's report...
...headed home, President seemed to get folksier & folksier at every stop. In Ardmore, Okla., he yanked open a horse's mouth and stared at the animal's teeth. "Six years old," he cried. "Correct," said the horse's owner. At Lexington, in Kentucky's bluegrass country, he compared himself to the wonder horse, Citation, in predicting a homestretch victory. At Shelbyville, Ky., he talked about his ancestry: "My grandfather Truman ran off with Mary Jane Holmes and was married here in Shelbyville and lived . . . out here west of town...
...founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...
...wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from ads as men turned to the soft, collar-attached shirt. Cluett, Peabody almost vanished with...
...getting old, but I don't feel it. I don't want to see it even. I don't look in the mirror any more." He had found that "life is very interesting if you make mistakes. That gives you an ambition in life to correct mistakes, to make money, to lose it, to make it all over again. That keeps you young...