Word: correction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson's edict will not only give the services a new supply of skilled officers and enlisted men which they need, it will help to correct a situation which has made the United States a hypocrite in the eyes of the world. While listening to sales-talk about the American Way of Life and the Superiority of American Democracy, they have seen American soldiers rigorously divided into castes of color. The new policy will help put into practice what our orators have been preaching to the world for a long time...
Freshmen lead hard lives. They are beset by scores of minor difficulties which are often ignored and allowed to ride from year to year. Among the easiest of these to correct is the lack of telephone service for over 100 members of the freshman class. These are the residents of Lionel, Mower, and Wigglesworth, three of the Yard's most modern buildings. At the beginning of this year, one Lionel proctor was overwhelmed with requests to use his telephone and complaints about the lack of a public phone. Lionel, Mower, or Wigglesworth have as many students as several freshman entries...
...purpose of this letter is to correct an erroneous impression given by my March 28th Publisher's Letter on Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent. Discussing the growing difficulty of reporting the news behind the Balkans' Iron Curtain, the Letter said: "The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists ..." This was unjust to the small, hard-working group of U.S., British and other non-Communist foreign correspondents still doing their jobs in the Balkans' Communist countries. Correspondent Low was one of the first to call...
...Manhattan speech to 600 college girls, cool, correct Actor-Director...
...gave the Europeans problems to consider other than their own, a chance to talk about subjects which were not restricted by their national borders. And with the United States holding such an important position in European affairs, the six-week sessions at the Seminar have been able to correct many misconceptions about America...