Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regret to see in your July 8 issue news about a murder committed by a Japanese young man who you said was a student of our educational institution. We ask you to correct this information. Kenjiro Yoshida came up to Tokyo in April 1954 and registered as a student at the college of economics of our university. However, he did not attend any class after his registration. In spite of repeated advice from school, he did not even send an answer to the administration office. We finally settled the cancellation of his name from the register in March 1956, before...
...Russians were trying to put on a show in Syria, it was a show of correct innocence. "Not a single Soviet soldier, apart from the military attache, has been or is now in Syria,'' said Moscow radio, and to make the story more credible, T-34 tanks were withdrawn from conspicuous posts on the road to Damascus. Western correspondents suddenly found the offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought...
...from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct the restriction of a U.S. citizen's rights by treaty, the House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy Markoff, injured in the same crash. ¶ Cited...
...Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)-should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn't think it is pronounced in the latter manner because that rhymes with 'cluck...
...other hand, says Woodring, critics who would correct these faults by turning back the clock are as badly mistaken as those who insist that all goes well with the school. True enough, "the classic thesis has many of the essential characteristics of a sound philosophy of education; yet, in a very real sense, it has failed to meet the challenge of the 20th century. It either could not, or did not, effectively cope with the problems presented by the extension of universal public education up through the high school. By ignoring all psychological findings regarding the nature of the learner...