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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correct an erroneous impression from yesterday's paper: the varsity track team financed most of its vacation trip to Quantico with funds given by the Friends of Harvard Track. The players then supplied the difference between the expenses and the gift...

Author: By The CITY Editor, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/11/1956 | See Source »

...desires that all his fellow humans participate in a minimum of civilized life. When winter came 13 persons committed suicide out of despair. Another murdered his brother to eat his brother's store of food. Hunger-driven men became thieves ... If I am wrong, please correct me, but I believe that for men to stay un-working with folded arms for six months in the year is a crime against society and against its foundation unit, the family. The Italian constitution states that men have a duty and a right to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sting of Conscience | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

This Is Your Wife. In Eaton, Ohio, after he had advertised for a week in the Register-Herald for "the name of the party" who stole his "wife and groceries" from his home, Bill Ross ran another notice to correct a misunderstanding: "I only want reimbursement for the $22 worth of groceries . . . The man that stole the wife must keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

When he noted the below-average record of Washington children in reading and arithmetic, District of Columbia Commissioner Brigadier General Thomas A. Lane thought he knew just what was wrong and how to correct it. Integration had thrown together children of unequal preparation, he told the Washington Education Conference. West Pointer Lane's solution to the problem: a mass demotion to restore students to their proper grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration's Headaches | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...always liked that jazz rhythm." At eight, she sat at the family piano and syncopated familiar waltzes and minuets. From recordings of Louis Armstrong. Benny Goodman, Count Basic and other U.S. masters, she learned how to play around a melody, but when she went to study music-reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory of music, Pia could learn nothing. After three lessons the director told Pia. "What you do with your hands and arms is all wrong, but you're a natural. Go away! I don't want to spoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Imported Export | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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