Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midnight, rumors began to fly in the building of impending police action. Students learned from a command post outside the building that Governor Brown had instructed police to correct what he called an unlawful situation at the University...
...singers had stopped moving chairs and were singing. Phil ran back on stage to correct some shoddy blocking, while Jack turned to interpret the mood of a scene to his musicians. "Don Alfonso comes on saying 'It's terrible,'" Jack said, looking as if something terrible had happened. "The ladies ask him what's happening and he finally tells them that the men have gone off to war. Now the audience knows this, but the women don't: Don Alfonso has made a deal with the men to do everything possible to test the women's fidelity within twenty-four...
...confronted the really crucial question, the goals and purposes of Gen Ed, and everyone has tried to solve Gen Ed's administrative problems by working only from the correct but simplistic assumption that students need to take some courses outside their field of concentration. Only for these reasons has the distribution plan, which ignores any but the most obvious goal of Gen Ed, been taken so seriously...
...While Mr. J. K. Jackson's letter [Nov. 6] is misleading, TIME'S statement on Mr. Wilson's education is correct. Mr. Jackson seemed to infer in his final paragraph that past Prime Ministers educated by tutors fall below the status of those with a grammar school education. The very opposite is the case. A good private tutor is a more costly form of education than even that of Eton. I should know, for I was educated by the former and my brother at the latter, and I cost my father a great deal more with probably...
...developing it. First it piqued the curiosity of shoe manufacturers by sending them sample batches to make into test shoes. Du Pont inspectors went along and swept up the scraps to prevent them from falling into the hands of industrial spies. Then, to catch and correct such bugs as cracking and stiffness, the firm gave away thousands of shoes to people who would give them a hard-wearing test, notably orphans in institutions, mailmen and its own salesmen and executives-including Copeland, who still wears Corfam shoes...