Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolve that:-Correct analysis, thorough study, full consideration on all of above are necessary in preparation for a National Advertising Campaign on Bakery Products...
...correct (TIME, Sept. 30) in saying that Jimmy Doolittle held his own and a little more than his own in boxing Eric Pedley in his undergraduate days. But that's not all-Doolittle administered a knockout with the first blow struck after the boxers had touched gloves. It was amazing because it was so quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold...
...birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French, but it is 17th Century French, adapted to new uses. . . . At Stockholm you hear the pedantic French of the old court. At Constantinople it is the French of the bootblack...
Cooperation with the library, and a realization by the instructors that there should be some ratio between the supply of books and the demand is necessary to correct the present situation...
...same method might be used to correct other lovers of cacaphony. Those who insist on letting their radios loose at full blast in what should be the dead of night could be cheerfully sentenced to an eternity of bad jazz. For the Gold Coast bottle-throwers and week-end revelers, a hell of raucous outcries, accompanied by an undertone of breaking glass could well be prescribed...