Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridges: Do you believe the decision to go forward with the B-52 bomber was a correct...
...take the privilege to offer two minor [criticisms]? The estimate of Booker Washington is only partly correct. In the beginning of his work he labored in such a limited field that he had to accept, for the time being, second-class citizenship. But that time passed, and there is no longer any reason for the Negro to continue in the Washington pattern. The other matter is the failure of your investigators to discover the "Deep South." I could lead you there where you would not recognize it as what we like to call democratic America. But these are very small...
...CORRECT VITAL STATISTICS, I AM 35 YEARS OLD, ALTHOUGH AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR I FEEL THE 45 YOU GAVE...
...World War I, Eddie was one of London's luminaries. He was theatergoer No. 1, a patron of such young poets as Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bridges, and Walter de la Mare. He took it upon himself to correct George Bernard Shaw's pronunciation and got called "a bumptious novice" for his pains, tidied up Ezra Pound's Greek, played charades with Playwright James M. Barrie. Between 1912 and 1925 he edited and published six volumes of poetry to help his young poet friends get started...
...White Fly." Among rich Italians, who generally make a practice of not reporting their full incomes, Marzotto is an exception. He is known as "the white fly" because he is one of Italy's few wealthy men who file a correct tax return. In 1951, on a business trip to the U.S. Marzotto got a phone call from his home office: How much of his income should be declared? Answered Marzotto: "Tell the government whatever it is. Not a penny less." The total: 462 million lire ($704,000), of which the government took...