Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the tests measured aptitudes in 20 fields, the 248 who took the tests will receive results in only 10 because of the immense amount of clerical work necessary, Dyer said. When the tests will again be given next spring, the Office expects to correct them by IBM machines, he added...
Even if Wright had really been cured, Judge McDonald had another disquieting thought to ponder: if he ruled that lobotomy could correct a criminal urge, would the precedent eventually empty all jails? After long thought, in which he decided not to "take this chance," the Judge said: "If we were to accede to the request that Wright be absolved ... we would soon be overwhelmed by similar requests from many other habitual criminals who are now incarcerated . . . and who would be willing to submit to similar operations. ... I have no confidence in such surgery. Hopes, perhaps, but no confidence...
Concluded Chief Draftsman Taft: "The Committees of Congress . . . have tried to restore equality in collective bargaining and correct only those abuses . . . which were clearly shown to exist...
...attacked the bill's basic philosophy, argued that it would compound the troubles it was designed to correct: "It would require the Government, in effect, to become an unwanted participant at every bargaining table . . . involve the Government in the free process of our economic system to a degree unprecedented in peacetime...
...Driver's Seat. Military scientists in every major country are working to correct this defect. "Practically all natural physical laws," says Colonel McCutcheon, "are being investigated to determine their suitability for guidance systems. Television, heat, light and sound all offer possibilities; magnetic, electric and gravitational fields are also being considered. . . . The first nation which arrives at a workable and practical solution to the problem will be in the driver's seat...