Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further questioning revealed that 12 persons affiliated with the School of design had contributed one dollar apiece to a pool, each making a guess as to the clock's diameter. Arthur Malsin, Yale '35, won the $11 with a guess of 15 feet, which proved to be correct when two of the students of architecture emerged directly above the time-piece and measured it with a six-foot rule...
Court circles saw in this denial fresh evidence of the close, brotherly relations of His Majesty and the Duke of Windsor who, annoyed by world-wide press mentions of "Duchess Wallis' 20-carat tub at La Croe" had, perhaps, picked up the telephone, got the King-Emperor to correct the tub story...
Soon developed was the fact that in some of its vital cases NLRB had withheld a right which was now declared to be essential. NLRB Counsel Charles Fahy asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for time to correct the Board's procedure and recent order against Republic Steel Corp. Active Mr. Wood, who also represents Ford Motor Co., another NLRB defendant, asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to require testimony whether the three NLRB members had themselves read and digested the 2,000,000 words of Ford testimony taken by subordinates; whether, before the finding was issued...
...World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY...
...Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...