Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whilst the range of prices that you quote- from a minimum of $94.50,up to a maximum of $262.50-are no doubt correct as being those offered by the company whose name you mention, the impression given to the casual reader is that the minimum rates quoted are the lowest in force anywhere. As such, they are likely to appall the person of moderate means who is contemplating a visit to England at this time...
...further impression created by your article is that hotel accommodation in London is virtually unobtainable, and that conditions are chaotic. Here again I beg to correct you, as my company has a good supply of medium-class space available at prices not ridiculously high...
Another thing; I believe that Professor Langer, by applying the 1898 concept of "Imperialism" to modern Italy, is grossly misleading. I don't believe it is imperialism at all that we are witnessing in the Italy of today. It is something quite different; and the correct description of what is might be "The Revival of Idealism". Mussolini and Italy are closer to Napoleon and the French Revolution. We are witnessing, in Italy's African campaigns, the first adventure of the Myth State, which has really as its basis, not the quest for raw materials, as was so in the imperialism...
...Crimson wishes to correct the statement attributed to Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, appearing in Monday's issue, in which he was quoted as denying the right of the Court to pass upon the validity of an act of Congress. This statement was a quotation from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson and was read for the purpose of illustrating Jefferson's point of view...
...gravitational force between proton and electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they are probably substantially correct in the case of the smaller numbers." But 10 78 and 10 39 looked so large that Dirac had difficulty regarding them as constants...