Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schweppe, former Dean of the University of Washington Law School, strongly criticized the three University professors who cancelled their speeches at Seattle as a result of its refusal to invite J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as its Walker Ames Visiting Lecturer. "I've written Dean Griswold, asking him to correct these fellows opinions," he stated yesterday...
...Seattle lawyer claimed that the U. of Washington was correct in barring Oppenheimer from the lectureship because of his testimony before the Atomic Energy Committee. "The hearings indicate that he is an undesirable person with an unsavory record and the professors who won't speak here are being ridiculous," he said...
...barely two hours it will complete a financial statement that takes a staff of accountants 320 hours. For Monsanto's chemists it will open up new horizons by rapidly working out complex equations to help discover new products, improve old ones, find out which of dozens of technically "correct" answers' to problems are the best...
...Flaw to Correct. The gravest defect in the revitalized A.F.L. that Meany took over was the weakness of the central leadership in comparison with some of the individual union heads. The public knew about the A.F.L.'s failure to stamp out racketeering in some of its unions-e.g., the longshoremen and teamsters. Almost as serious were the unceasing membership raids between A.F.L. unions. Meany started by negotiating a no-raiding agreement within the A.F.L. Meanwhile the unity committee mulled over some sobering statistics showing how labor was wasting its strength in internal warfare. The figures...
...summer of 1940, Papa and Mama Poissonard and family seem no better off than anyone else Papa is built like a beer barrel and Mama like a bathtub, but they do have a nose for news, and word reaches them within a week that the Germans are most "correct." They race back to the Bon Beurre, to do a little business-as-usual...