Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first time you reach the point in question, you state the correct conclusion and in parenthesis say "infra" i.e. this will be proved later. Next comes eight or nine pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position" and write "supra", i.e. as we have already shown...
...majority of us will have it so. Rallys have been, and always will be, a part of student life; be they banned here in Cambridge, and carried on in other parts of the world, or not On the other hand, concede for a moment that the sophisticated are correct in assuming that rallys have no place in student life, are a danger to the public, and should be suppressed by law. One must still contend with the methods used by the police here in Cambridge to disperse the meeting. Are the police warranted in handling the situation which arose last...
...long dialectical speeches have often foretold new twists & turns in the Red dragon's journey. Mao once called him a "consistently correct" Communist, which is praise of a special order. He has moved much faster than other district leaders to collectivize farming and socialize industry. In the structure of its government and the conduct of its business, the Northeast has more autonomy than the other five districts making up Red China. It was Kao, rather than a delegation from Peking, who went to Moscow and negotiated the Manchurian-Soviet trade agreement of 1949. Until recently, the Northeast even...
...spare minutes of sightseeing in Manhattan, Prince Suksawat of Thailand, who went to Princeton from 1931 to 1933, paid a dressing-room visit to Actor Yul Brynner who plays the part of the prince's grandfather in The King and I. How was the Prince addressed? The correct title, he said, was "Your Serene Highness," but his friends call...
...much of a mouse. The explanation for his smart behavior lies in the relays, which move him around by means of a motor-driven magnet. They remember all his successful moves. So when he makes his second trip, the relays whisk him without an error along the correct path...