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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor. Then you would have A,B,C,A, instead of G,A,B,G, and the resulting sounds would be correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Sorts. Santiago newspapers, whooping up the story, dubbed the find "The Indian Princess" (it was later found to be a boy). They quoted experts who said the body must be put back in cold storage. A physician jumped in, asserting that the correct procedure was to put the body in the sun so that it could dry up. Dr. Fuenzalida replied curtly: "I know how to do it," and popped the cadaver into a box lined with black paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Battle of the Body | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Princeton's idea with Yale's money. Those at the dinner nodded sympathetically remembering that Woodrow Wilson 25 years earlier had tried to institute a democratic division at Nassau, but had been unable to defeat the alumni-backed club system. President Lowell, however, jumped to his feet to correct the speaker's remark. Princeton was not involved at all. "It was a bolt out of the Blue," the dark-haired, mustached president declared...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Houses: Seven Dwarfs By The Charles? | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

TIME, March 1, erred-pardonably-in its pleasant report of a recent New York Times interview of the undersigned on the topic of "Mom" ... I never have "backpedaled" about Mom, but TIME was correct in saying I like women. It is the intensity of that passion which makes me deplore those who turn into Moms-an addlepated aggregate of self-made tyrants who turn upon truth or freedom as swiftly as upon evil, if either hurts their vanity. And this last is founded on the busty credo that any act of procreation, including the accidental, gives them title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Army? Paratrooper Ridgway hedged, hesitated and then gave his answer: "When a career military officer receives from proper authority a decision ... he accepts that decision as a sound one, and he does his utmost within his available means to carry it out." Nevertheless, Ridgway proceeded, in highly correct form, to say that he thought the U.S. should have more power on the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Sidelong Look | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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