Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knocked an ash off from his cigarette into the fire place. He looked down at the fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath his Adams-apple. He glanced at himself in the glass of a picture. It was fine...
This being the first indignant-letter-to-the-editor that I've ever written, I'm not sure about the correct form...
...Leprosy is less contagious than almost any other communicable disease" [TIME, 17] is correct up to a certain point but should be amplified. It is the adult who is highly resistant-though in the history of Kalaupapa Settlement of Hawaii two missionaries, both . . . indifferent regarding contact, have acquired the infection...
...Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors, writers, researchers, and of tomorrow's letters-to-the-editor writers...
...misquotation, as J. P. Morgan meaningfully pointed out to.his partner Thomas W. Lamont in 1936 when Lamont made a slip before the Nye Investigation Committee. The correct quote: "The love of money is the root of all evil" (I Timothy...