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Word: correctible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked Purist M.P. Ian Mikardo: "Will the Honorable Lady do what she can to ensure that the French is correct? Is she aware that on today's luncheon menu no fewer than four accents were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Heathen Customs | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...device called the "Spectro-Chrome" that constantly changes its garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure-Alls | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...answer to charges that he was enroaching on one of the essential freedoms, Taft pointed out last night that paper and mimeographing facilities for the publication are supplied by the University and that he desired only to "correct it for facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor--Wives Brave Administrative Maze in Search of 'Press Freedom' | 5/27/1947 | See Source »

...head and the roar stops. Then Harry turns to the red-faced one. who looked as though he was about to kick Harry in the groin ten seconds ago. Harry says calmly: 'Haven't had time to play. Too cold. I been reading on how to correct that slice.' The red face nods sympathetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Court of Ceres | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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