Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York to the Mississippi-and in the end it involved the fleets of both England and France. It progressed slowly: the British held New York for years, and months often passed without major incident. It was polite in tone: prisoners were duly exchanged, flags of truce honored, and correct notes passed between opposing commanders (Washington formally returned General Sir William Howe's dog to him when it was captured by Americans at Germantown...
...FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey has already asked the House Ways & Means Committee to correct the "many conspicuous abuses [of the tax law] by highly paid individuals." And two bills to repeal the "Hollywood clause" have been introduced. But protests have already been heard from engineering firms and mining companies. Probable solution: exempt the first $20,000 earned overseas, tax the rest at regular rates...
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WONDERFUL REPORTORIAL JOB ON 3-D, BIG SCREEN, ETC. I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT, HOWEVER, THESE SOMEWHAT MINOR ERRORS: DR. JULIAN GUNZBURG IS NO OPTICIAN BUT AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST WHOSE CHIEF ACTIVITY AS AN M.D. IS EYE SURGERY ; THE 3-D EXPERT . . . WHOM YOU QUOTE AS SAYING THAT THE FIRST 3-D PICTURES WERE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A 4-INCH INTEROCULAR, IS IN ERROR. MOST NATURAL VISION EQUIPMENT USES APPROXIMATELY A 3-INCH INTEROCULAR, SOME...
...Hyatt Mayor chose 100-odd prints and paintings calculated to fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...