Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fancy of the wearer. M. Herriot wears a rather dumpy velour. Until he became Premier in January Edouard Daladier wore a romantic fedora. His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg...
Results of the Harvard Army mathematical contest held at West Point will not be known for ten days, it was announced on Saturday when time was called on the match. Professor Arnold Dresden, of Swarthmore, president of the Mathematical Association of America, will correct the papers, and only mathematicians will be able to understand the scoring. Although D. V. Widder '20, associate professor of Mathematics, and Lieutenant C. F. Robinson of the Army, the two coaches, declined to predict the outcome, it is reported that the Crimson figure chasers had the edge...
...assignments. Because of the widely varying composition of the Houses at present, some men will find that they have been put into a House where their own set is submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism by Masters. Once the Houses have been forced into a position of social equality, it should be possible to return to the intrinsically...
...President skimmed the subject of inflation: "The Administration has the definite objective of raising commodity prices to such an extent that those who have borrowed money will, on the average, be able to repay that money in the same kind of dollar which they borrowed. . . . We seek to correct a wrong and not create another wrong in the opposite direction. . . . These powers will be used when, as and if it may be necessary to accomplish the purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight traffic increasing, farm prices improving...
...your excuses for troubling you with this letter and I will be very much obliged if you can correct your note...