Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that Democratic professionals would be very happy if Justice Douglas assented. He had the right specifications: he is a Protestant and geographically correct (home state: Washington); most important, he would carry New Dealish weight in the big cities of the East and Midwest...
...tangled hair and piercing eye, people thought he might be a gypsy. He had arrived in Manhattan at 17, with one Mr. Smith who set him up as a silhouettist on Broadway. Admission to the "Hubard Gallery" (50) had entitled visitors to "see the Exhibition and obtain a correct Likeness in Bust cut by Master Hubard who without the least aid from Drawing Machine or any kind of outline but merely by a glance at the Profile and with a pair of Common Scissors instantly produces a Striking and Spirited Likeness...
...Correct Dosage...
...Correct dosage varies for each person, he explained. If a student takes just the right amount, benzedrine will prevent him from sleeping, but otherwise do no harm. If he takes a little too much, he will fall into a delusional or "euphoric" state, in which he does everything wrong without ever realizing...
...billion, $789 billion, and $1,321 billion were the figures submitted by Slichter, based respectively on records of increase per worker and on recent rates of increase in the national income. Somewhere between "the fairly wide range of $800 billion and $1,300 billion is to be found the correct figure for reproducible wealth in the year 1990," Slichter declared...