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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know. The sun, asserted Herr Bueren is a hot, hollow sphere, a million miles in diameter; inside its fiery shell floats a cool core, 600,000 miles thick and lush with vegetation. What's more, he had 25,000 marks ($5,945) that said he was correct about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Legally Hot | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Heckmann and colleagues, having paid attention to the prize offer, sued Bueren in the Osnabrück court. "Science cannot always say what is correct." they argued, "but we have advanced so far as to be able to say what is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Legally Hot | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...does not ignore forces he believes tend to check human improvement. He denounces Communist attempts to control or stifle free scientific research, "not merely because . . . the promising unity of world science has been disrupted, but because a political party has imposed its own dogmatic view of what must be correct . . . " In the next paragraph he denounces "official Catholic pronouncements on birth control and sex relations," not only because they mean frustration and misery and ill-health and ignorance ... for thousands of millions of souls ... They are also wrong because they are asserted absolutely and dogmatically, instead of being conclusions arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man Unlimited | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, you needn't mark opposite the question. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...most of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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