Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correct the usage of a word in your review of Sassoon's remarkable book, "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man" which you entitled "Huntsman...
...believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...
...ability to answer any question within reason. Captain Richards explained that each question had a key number, such as 74, the sound waves of the seven and four combined making a certain rate of vibration on a wire inside the man, which vibrations cause him to give the correct answer...
...added, "give the children the facts and they will correct things when it comes their time...
...Camerlynck was no mere polylinguist. He comprehended many tongues, but he translated only between English and French. His German was too correct and stilted. It was only to his chosen and special art that this little man from Flanders brought facility and fidelity which at times seemed miraculous. Gliding like an actor imperceptibly into the rôle of the statesman for whom he was translating, Professor Camerlynck would seem to become by turns Statesmen Lloyd George, Clémenceau, Wilson, Balfour, Hughes, Briand, Dawes or perhaps that wily Greek, old Eleutherios Venizelos. "We Greeks!" M. Camerlynck would...