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Word: corrections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, slightly embarrassed officials pointed out that since President Barclay's Government has not been recognized, Minister Mitchell was quite correct in addressing him as "Mr. Barclay." Firestone Rubber seemed unlikely to get its money soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Mr. Mitchell & Mr. Barclay | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations." In insisting on the faith of the notoriously skeptical Philosophers and in ringing the changes on the religious character of their humanitarian philosophy, Professor Becker, has helped to correct a popular fallacy about the age of Voltaire, But in assimilating the religion of nature and humanity with Christianity almost to the point of identification, he has fallen into the error common to 'scientific' history of sociology, for which religion is religion (that is, simply one of the colossal self...

Author: By C. C. St. j., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/7/1933 | See Source »

...high school there seems to be a wide discrepancy in the pronunciation of the President-elect's name. Some teachers insist on the first syllable pronounced like ''goose" or "rue." while others uphold the sound of "rose." I would appreciate the correct pronunciation from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...enclosing two clippings giving correct version of the sensationalized spider story you got out of the daily press. One clipping is 'my letter from the Sunday Times Press (Scripps-Howard newspaper), in which the long drawn out spider story was worked up. It might be said that the spider was observed and publicized in and by the newspaper, certainly we in this department did not do a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

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