Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the correct version as quoted to me by its author, [the late] Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S., etc., etc., onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba. . . . This world authority on fungi found enough time . . . to write many such light verses, some of which were inspired by what he saw through a high-power lens. Not a little of this time was spent in trying to get credit for the above, which first appeared over his name in Punch. In his own words: "I don't mind the credit going to Bishops, Wits, Established Authors...
...quotation ascribed to me ... is far from being correct or flattering. "Mama should stay the hell in the waiting room" is neither a true quotation nor good English...
...design of this paper is to diffuse among the people correct information on all interesting subjects to inculcate just principles in religion, morals and politics, and to cultivate a taste for sound literature...
...TIME erred; Reader Parks' breakdown is correct...
...C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray fell the major task of making labor's case. He wrote to the President: the bill was "not corrective"; it would "encourage and increase labor disputes"; it was "exclusively and aggressively anti-labor . . . sinister . . . dangerous" not only to labor but to the U.S. public. But in all his 8,000 words Phil Murray made no mention of the abuses of labor's power which the bill sought to correct...