Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done in the early 1900s by Newell Convers Wyeth. Among the most picturesque is an illustration for a book called Arizona Nights, entitled "He Called Him Out and Shot Him in the Stomach." All demonstrate Wyeth's eye for action, his command of atmosphere and his passion for correct detail...
...psychiatrist will treat the parents as much as the boy, in an effort to correct the flaws in the youngster's background. He will seem to pay little attention to the symptom of homosexuality, being scrupulously careful not to give it disproportionate emphasis. Instead, he will help the boy to see how his emotional growth has been stunted or twisted by factors that he did not understand. Then, when the whole personality is once more developing along more nearly normal lines, the problem of homosexuality can be resolved...
...gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E. For those undergraduates with the correct background it was all-important that they be elected to the Dickey--it meant certain social success in College and afterward. And even in 1926 when the Pudding and the Institute merged, the club sent out a list of members, in the order which they had been elected. This ranking...
...countries in this respect, other countries which, I may add, perhaps may not have all the armaments of this type which the Soviet Union has." Was Vishinsky bragging emptily? Washington correspondents, after taking a few soundings among the close-mouthed U.S. atomic experts, concluded: "If he is not precisely correct, he is considered . . . nearly so here...
When Beilenson admitted that Bicks was correct, the motion approving his procedure was withdrawn...