Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nine days and 42 witnesses, the case went last week to the twelve-man jury, which needed only an hour and 52 minutes to decide that the Crown's story was the correct one. The verdict : "Guilty." Ontario Supreme Court Justice F. H. Barlow pronounced sentence: ". . . solitary confinement until the seventh day of January, when you shall be taken to the place of execution and there hanged by the neck until dead." (A woman has not been hanged in Canada in eleven years. But four women were under sentence of death in the Dominion last week.) The trial...
...toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival of chain-store trucks, and got first grab. Although it was always correct to tip, when in doubt, it was often possible to become a preferred customer simply by beaming at the high prices. And if you knew the right man in the right line anything was possible...
...pure space-gliding, only cheaters use power. But Professor Herrick believes that real space ships will use their power in spurts to correct their courses and climb steep gravitational grades. He does not hanker to make any voyages himself but he has thought deeply on the subject. "On a voyage to Venus," he says, "we should take both sexes, if we plan to do any colonizing...
...help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On recent TIME tests college students' scores have averaged 35, senior high school students' scores have averaged 40, junior high school students' scores have...
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3-standing for Truman-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...