Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker made our stand on Communism and Wallace perfectly clear; unfortunately few stayed to listen. We wish to correct any unfavorable impression which may have been created. The purpose of this letter, then, is completely to dissociate our organization from the Wallace movement and to express our utter distaste for Communist principles. Gustav Papauck 1G, National Chairman, S.L.L.D...
Dzerzhinsky yearned to correct the faults of his fellow man. One of the first people he corrected was the head of the Revolutionary Military Committee for Combating Alcoholism & Banditry, who wandered into Dzerzhinsky's office one night, drunk. Dzerzhinsky had him shot...
...write platitudes about remote subjects. It is not so easy to live up to the highest ethics and responsibilities of a newspaper in the public affairs of its own home community. ... It is a newspaper's duty to show the bad so that the people can correct it, and the good so that it may be encouraged. ... Is this the kind of newspaper you want...
...wages between students and "civilians" hired by the University. The undergraduate help have a good case in requesting that their salaries be placed on the same basis of the waitresses: 65 cents an hour plus free meals when on duty. At the same time, the University is quite correct in saying that students do receive the equivalent now. But in making their equation, the University figures the meals to "civilians" at food cost, or approximately 40 cents a meal, while undergraduate employees are charged an average of 70 cents for theirs...
...commodity exchanges? Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, known to Wall Street as "We the People,"* last week announced that the speculators were indeed "We the People." The world's biggest securities and commodities brokerage house thought it had enough information in its files (150,000 customers) to correct the Truman Administration's impression that commodity speculators were a small bunch of cold-eyed moneybags profiting on human misery...