Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the new directors only six weeks to learn that Inventor Zerk's accusations against the management were substantially correct. They promptly ousted President Charles B. Smith, and before the year end they also ousted his two senior vice presidents. Mr. Otis was made active head of the parent company. Suits were hastily brought against the old officers to recover salaries and bonuses. Unprofitable lines including cinema equipment were dropped. Alemite's operations were consolidated with the Stewart-Warner Chicago plant. Superfluous subsidiaries were dissolved. A new accounting system was installed and assets were written down. Stewart-Warner...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...
Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes...
Young Fess received either $3,000 or $5,000 Henderson said. He could not remember which figure was correct...
Every year Mr. Fradd photographs the Freshman class and picks out the round-shouldered from their straighter-backed fellows. About one in five of the residents of the Yard join his posture class, that innocuous gathering which spends six weeks in corrective exercises. Mr. Fradd is an experienced practitioner, several of the larger New England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines...