Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirac theory predicts, among many other things, that hydrogen atoms can exist in two different "states"-one stable, the other unstable-which contain the same amount of energy. Lamb & Retherford checked up with ultrashort radio waves (war-developed for radar), and found that this prediction was not correct...
Secretary Marshall's proposals represent an example of the correct approach to the problem of making the U. N. a more effective agency. The recommendations, even if not accepted, will serve to focus attention on the continuing task of maintaining the peace. A sudden leap into Utopia is not to be expected. Even gradual change will not be effected without a good deal of inflammatory debate. But the gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation...
...harassed manufacturer and a nominal Republican myself, and I realize that they want to lower the debt by cutting expenditures. I know only too well what stupidity and inefficiency run rampant in some government bureaus, but why doesn't the Republican majority launch a constructive program to correct this basic cause of expensive government, instead of criticizing the sound policies of their opponents...
Said Sofia's Government-controlled Fatherland Front: "The new democratic Greek government which will be the center of the Free Greek State . . . presents the only correct and sensible solution of the Greek question." Said Izgrev: "Political circles comment on the meaning attached to last week's departure [from Athens] of the Yugoslav charge and the Soviet Ambassador. It is known that both left without requesting return visas. It is believed that perhaps the Slav countries will recall their diplomatic missions from Athens and will recognize a 'free Greece...
...radio quiz show. "On what river is the U.S. Naval Academy located?" asked the quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...