Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orchids to TIME for returning "March of Time" to the air. Raspberries to TIME'S editors for not knowing correct usage. . . . To avoid future embarrassment, I suggest careful study of its and it's, two other pitfalls for unwary secondary school students...
...Ronald Lindsay, the moose-tall Ambassador at Washington of His Britannic Majesty, eschewed last week each of his many opportunities to correct or deny the extraordinary dispatches which hourly arrived from London concerning Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
...notable exceptions, in repulsing valuable men already over-busy, and in discouraging most advisors from devoting any appreciable attempt to advising. This irritating condition continues year by year disguised in President's reports with honeyed words and justified in the college's eyes by the lack of money to correct it. The policy is plain short-sightedness on the part of a corporation which every year gives Freshmen increased discretion in course selection and new fields of study. By neglecting first-year men they are building an elaborate scholastic temple on foundations of sand...
Depreciation alone could produce results rapidly enough during the crisis of 1933-34. Three years of sindy have convinced the author of this volume that in the peculiar conditions of 1931-3 depreciation was the correct policy. In 1933 he had not been so sure of that position...
...took certain samples of my own breath in the chamber at intervals, a process which required some nicety of manipulation, the correct turning of taps and so forth. The analyses proved that there had been errors of manipulation in the last two samples. Now the interesting point is not that these errors occurred, though that is quite significant, but that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining...