Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of March 20, TIME refers to Glenn Cunningham as "the world's greatest miler." In view of the fact that Wooderson of England holds the record which is recognized by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, how can this statement be considered correct...
...persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence in the creative expression of our time and the future. By "taste" I do not mean the knowledge of what it is permitted for a gentleman to admire, nor the ability to employ correct terminology in describing one's aesthetic experiences, but rather that synthesis of knowing, of intuition, of critical awareness, which becomes part of one's permanent equipment in dealing not only with aesthetic experience but with experience in general. Many teachers who have worked with young people during these later years...
...principle of the machine's operation is based on the fact that a lead pencil mark is electrically conductive. The scoring key is prepared by making perforations to correspond in position with correct responses on the answer form...
...career supplied him with material aplenty. A soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...