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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Correct Communist. As master of "the Northeast District," spectacled Kao Kang, who is not yet 50, is one of the six vice chairmen of Mao's Peking government. Not Manchurian by birth (he comes from Shensi), he is undisputed No. 1 in Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: North of the Great Wall | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...group plans to examine the textbook treatment of history in an attempt to correct distortion growing out of national points of view. Britain, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece, and Norway also sent men to the meeting. German and United States books will be examined and criticized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kohn Joins U.S. Group for Ten Days At History Conference in Germany | 5/14/1952 | See Source »

...jumped 61% to 186,000; Catholic enrollments are up 35% to more than 3,000,000. Leading Protestant group: the Missouri Lutheran Synod, with 1,164 schools and 95,474 students. ¶A red-faced Los Angeles school administration reported that it would cost the city $1,389.50 to correct the misspelling (langauge for language) on the school system's new report cards. Cried the L. A. Examiner: "What's Rong With Skool Bored Spelling? It's Costing Munny!" ¶At the University of Nebraska one night last week, 400 spring-feverish students poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...weather is manufactured in those frigid air masses where the aurora brightens the long polar nights. Dr. Menzel believes that as much energy goes into the display as the earth normally absorbs from the heat and light of a day in the sun. If further observations prove him correct, even meteorologists in latitudes far from the pole will be checking on the faraway fireworks of the aurora borealis before they make their forecasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Northern Lights | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...convinced that the survival of our American way of life depends to a large degree on our ability to see and correct the evils of our existing institutions, sooner than to throw our system overboard in favor of any one of the many forms of Utopia which our Washington D.C. reformers and some collaborators in university classrooms are trying to foist upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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