Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past week "it has been hard to get to sleep, so I've been reading the newspapers, not out of vanity but simply out of curiosity. I noted the vigor with which you have pursued the secrets of the conclave, but I saw scarcely two accounts that were correct. Your strength was formidable, but the silence [of the conclave] has been even stronger...
...trade unionists dimly aware that their class has been milked of all intelligence capable of leadership, and upper-class women amorously alive to the proletarian athletes' big muscles. Blindly the author discounts the unrest; his publisher ends the book with a note that the writer was unable to correct proofs because he was killed in the uprising...
None of the entrants guessed the correct score of Saturday's game, but this was not through lack of effort. One ambitious prognosticator tried his luck 286 times, and lost...
...with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...correct two misleading impressions conveyed by a story referring to me in your issue of November 6th? First, there was nothing in the least unusual about the circumstances surrounding my leaving the Harvard faculty in 1946. At that time I had two and half years of a five year term as Assistant Professor still to serve. I resigned to devote myself to other work. Neither the Economics Department nor the University Administration had anything to do with it. Second, I was never officially connected with the University of New Hampshire in any capacity whatever. The lecture I gave...