Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gimmick does everything else, making corrections for wind pressure, the pull of gravity on the bullets and the speed of the enemy plane. Scrambling this information in its cogwheel brain, it tosses in the speed of the projectiles and automatically points the guns not to where the foe is, but to where he will be when the bullets get there. But the human element still remains: for results, the gimmick must have correct data, steady sighting...
Biologist Bissonnette concedes that light does not affect all animals alike, and that in the tropics, where the length of days varies little with the seasons, mating animals must be affected by something else. But he would like to know, if his theory is not correct, why swallows always arrive at Capistrano on the same day of the year, regardless of temperature...
Sidney Franklin, the Brooklyn bullfighter, trying to correct a 4-F rating, underwent an operation on a wound dating back to a goring he suffered in Madrid 13 years...
...People in Dortmund had no correct information about the damage done by the floods, but they were convinced that the effects were catastrophic. They talked every day about the destruction of the dams, and the comment was more bitter than that on other bombings. The attack on water-distributing facilities was called 'unworthy warring...
...Jacksonville, planning a dozen training films. Good-natured Jimmy Thach went at it earnestly, flying, shooting, lecturing and jotting down notes in his little black book (where once he listed his squadron in the order he thought they would be killed, found his predictions, based on tactical skill, generally correct...