Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to correct an erroneous impression 'given by the "Confidential Guide" about a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday course. Contrary to the information given in the "Guide," we strongly suggest that freshmen not postpone "Philosophy 1" until their sophomore year. For those who have the vaguest notion of concentrating in Philosophy, "Philosophy 1" in the freshman year is almost essential, since philosophy majors need its background for the more advanced courses. It has also proved valuable background for several of the Humanities and English courses. As the "Guide" points out, students have always enjoyed Professor Demos and his interesting presentation...
...driller that cuts the hardest metal-e.g., tungsten carbide-without touching it. Made by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., the cutting edge is a stream of electrons a sort of manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard...
Auto credit is not as serious a danger as you picture in TIME, Aug. 22. Your claim that the auto purchaser owes more than his car is worth for the first 9½ months after he drives it from the showroom is not correct, and the frightening-looking graph alongside is misleading. In the text, you say that the customer pays 25% down ("common terms nowadays"). This means that he owes initially only $1,800, which is less than the $1,920 the car is then worth . . . You ought to correct the impression given by the chart...
...spoken prettily of a deep feeling for human needs, and then turned right around and fought against aid to education-and against increased social-security benefits ... It saddens and sickens me . . . This situation has already gone far. It is getting worse and worse . . . The only way to correct that situation is at the ballot...
...virus is inactivated by mixing it with a formaldehyde solution. The key to the correct process is using just the right amount of formaldehyde and letting the brew simmer for just the right duration; too much or too long may cook the virus to a point where the vaccine is useless, while the opposite may allow live virus to remain. Under the new PHS safety procedures, manufacturers must make numerous tests on large batches of the formaldehyde-virus broth (only small samples were tested before). Now samples of every batch of vaccine are submitted to PHS laboratories (earlier, PHS examined...