Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleased that his idea has been brought to the point where "the technician, not the philosopher, is needed. The tables will help end all the elegant economic theorizing that has up to now been done with too little data," he says. He is probably 85.6% correct...
...time classifying the "N.R." Neither "liberal" nor "radical" will do. The appropriate adjective is "civilized," a word alien to this country, used on this side of the Atlantic only as a term of condescension or ridicule. The New Republic is civilized in the French sense of the term: "rendu correct ou elegant." And, because it is civilized, it can civilize those who read it, by stimulating interest in new problems and by fostering perspective in regard to old ones...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, President of the CRIMSON and later of the United States, wrote that editorial. And the colorful New Dealer was never more correct than when he suggested that Harvard men should give their team the kind of support it deserves. They may do so once again tonight, not in the great Living Room, but in the plot of land surrounded by Kirkland, Winthrop and the Indoor Athletic Building...
...temporary study committee could give the Council an accurate picture of the current difficulties of the Negro communities. Some Councillors seem to believe that Cambridge has no substantial problem. Even if this view were proved correct, it is presently dangerous because it is based on ignorance. In the light of updated information, Vorenberg's proposal could be studied seriously and objectively...
...state that Harold Wilson is the first British Prime Minister who is a " 'grammar-school boy'-meaning he did not attend one of the country's select privateschools[Oct.23]."The first part of this statement may be correct, though it should be explained what the British grammar school is. It is very broadly equivalent to an American high school, but entry is confined to pupils reaching a certain academic standard. Neither Lloyd George nor Ramsay MacDonald attended a "select private school." Going back farther into history, you will probably find that some Prime Ministers were educated...