Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly cut off our tail of bourgeois ideology...
Computations of the machine are checked at several points for possible errors. During the mathematical operations in the arithmetic section of Mark III, answers are double-checked at every stage in the problem before going on to the next stage. To insure that the final typed results are correct, all numbers are recorded twice on the magnetic tape by two parallel and independent systems. Unless both numbers on the tape are identical, the striking action of the type bars sets off an alarm and stops the typewriters...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
...advertisement in the June 27 issue, Peter S. Safran, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., noticed a magazine which appeared to him to have its logotype purposely defaced or to be an international edition of TIME in Arabic. At any rate, he wanted to know which was correct,* and added: "If this letter proves nothing else, it proves how closely every page is read by TIME readers...
Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...