Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men need no broad undergraduate intercourse "to supplement" or "even correct the influence by teachers of the university," The fallacy of this thought is in the same category as that of the thorough sinners who make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows...
...necessities of our common life for the common good. We can use government in the service of the worker with hand and brain, to bring to us all plenty of peace and freedom. That will never be done by two parties belonging to the same set of interests. To correct this dangerous, undemocratic situation, is a challenge to your generation...
...Occasionally TIME uses "verbal" when -oral" is the correct word for a spoken statement...
...compares the presidency of a college to the presidency of the United States . . . . . . . . Certainly English A or some similar course back in the nineties must have taught Mr. Bartlett the theory and practice of correct analogy. The presidency of the college requires cultural qualities with ability to judge scholars and teachers, and to guide the teaching systems of a university...
Special Shoes. Ground Gripper Stores, Inc. and Kahler Shoe Co. sell special shoes to correct foot ills. They have consolidated with Powers Realty Trust (owner of a shoe factory at Roxbury, Mass.) as Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Inc. They have 103 retail stores in leading U. S. cities and, besides, 1,000 exclusive dealers...