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Word: corrections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduce government costs and to foster the fair payment of federal pensions to war veterans, is inaugurating a Harvard branch. At a meeting in Dunster House on Monday night, J. L. Saltonstall '00 spoke informally on the aims of the League and the work it is doing to correct the wrongs of present day bonus exploitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO HAVE LOCAL BRANCH OF ECONOMY LEAGUE | 10/14/1932 | See Source »

...Abraham Lincoln as examples, the author points out here that they are honored for doing entirely different things; Washington because he successfully carried out a war for independence, Lincoln because he successfully crushed a war for independence. As in these outstanding instances, the book shows, a principle absolutely correct within certain limits may not be so under other conditions. The chief theme of the book lies in pointing out how, in the field of public affairs and social relations, principles equally good in their place often come into conflict, making a fertile field for the political student who is searching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK BY LOWELL TO BE PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY | 9/29/1932 | See Source »

...frequent inquiry is made by people interested in science as to how they can donate their pets to the cause of research. A regular occurrence is the question of what is the correct pronunciation or spelling of some word, such as beret. Once the office was asked whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. It replied in the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Flooded With Bizarre Queries About Everything From Divorces to Spelling, as Well as Buildings | 9/28/1932 | See Source »

...content merely with presenting his statistics, Roger Babson also offers advice. Ministers with dwindling congregations, says he, should be aware of, and seek to correct, the following conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchgoing | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...assumed a diabolical leer, and cried: 'Didn't I tell you if you ever went gadding to that saloon again I'd kill you?' That was what poor Joe is supposed to have told his misunderstood wife before she resorted to her little gun to correct his manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fun at a Murder Trial | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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