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Word: correctible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...What is the correct way to greet the headwaiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...correct form ... is: "Here, Joe, old boy, is a 20, how's about fixing me up with a table and I don't want one in the Polar Region." (Editor's note: behind a pole.) If he says no, make it a50, as I happen to know the poor guy . . . has a tough struggle buying a home on Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Export federations" - nonprofit trade cooperatives in the U.S. newspaper, magazine, radio, book, and cinema industries - to watch over the quality of exported information. Purpose: to correct the "prewar ratio of 200 True Confessions to every Harper's available abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fight over Freedom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Having read your articles on Great Britain [TIME, March 4], we cannot avoid feeling that it is necessary to correct your apparent misinformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...such as I have not tasted since Hitler attacked Poland, an omelette Perigoitrdine not to be found anywhere else in Europe, a brochette de rognons that would knock Monsieur Brillat-Sava-rin's eye out. . . ." He kept the location secret, said he, because "officially speaking, it is not correct to eat well today in this country. . . ." His happy conclusion: "Whatever has happened to France . . . she has not lost the art of cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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