Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alert Reader Singley, whose X-ray facts are substantially correct,* TIME'S red-faced congratulations for a likely solution of the "Spectral Appendectomy" mystery...
...correct answer was given to the question throughout the day. . . . When relating this experience to a member of the staff.* The barium shadow of the appendix can be seen often, not "rarely." But Dr. Singley's main point still holds: as proof of the absence of the appendix the X-ray test is unreliable. of Columbia University Library, she sadly bemoaned the ignorance of the average person of facts pertaining to our country. I broke in with, "Can you tell me the location of the State of Kansas?" She could not! . . . The Little Red Schoolhouse had its points...
...TIME erred, is happy to correct the figure upward. The maximum for complete loss of a leg, rated as 90% disability, is $138.50 a month...
...Ambassador Alexander Kirk, smartly correct in dress and speech, was with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...
...capital. In no time, he had won friends for Russia all over Latin America. Now & again a suspicious voice would ask why Russia had sent such a top-drawer diplomat to Mexico City. There were rumors of Russian undercover activity. But Ambassador Oumansky's conduct was always scrupulously correct...