Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have often noticed your readiness to correct erroneous statements and, no doubt, you will accept my assurance that "Fildes" has never rhymed with "Shields," but always with "Childs" [TIME, June 23]. . . . As for his "goatee" . . . his was an ordinary beard (see cut) as worn by many "gents" of his day. He looked like the doctor in his picture [of "The Doctor...
...sent off to Rio to study, slept in a bathtub, learned a correct academic style that won him several medals. After that came a two-year scholarship in Paris. He angered his sponsors by returning to Brazil with only a single small painting. Portinari explained: "I can paint nothing at first sight. I must wait and let imagination work...
...wars, the military strategy of the United Nations, the whole course of Russo-Anglo-American relations in the recent war, and the inner workings of Soviet Russia in a few incidental pages tucked away in the back of the book; but his observations on Germany, at least, are partially correct...
...general. . . . Although the problem of propulsion is generally more advanced than that of guidance and control, it is by no means [true that] "Power supply is no problem." The suggestion that "Bat" and "Loon" are the only guided missiles to have passed the blueprint stage is not quite correct. There are several projects that have entered the test phase, but of course no elaboration on any such projects can be given because of the security regulations vital to national defense. The conservative and factual presentation made by TIME is representative of the high type of journalism necessary in the development...
They had written the script themselves. Sample: after a careful explanation of the correct stance, Sarah hits a ball far to the right of Pauline, who ignores it, then does a double take: "Oh, are you supposed to run after it?" Sarah tells Pauline: "You're holding your arm wrong." Replies Pauline: "I can't do much about it. I was born with my arm attached to my shoulder." When they quit clowning and played tennis, the crowd usually breathed a sigh of relief...