Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate that the American publishers gave the volume a drab, ugly binding and failed to correct a variety of typographical errors...
...common assumption that Americans do not gesticulate is not correct. Even aside from the well-known oratorical gestures we are fairly lively. Most of our gestures may be designated as descriptive. We supplement our speech with move ments that indicate the form of what we are talking about. Nevertheless on the whole our gestures are moderate...
...When two-thirds of the people who use a certain language decide to call it a freight-train instead of a goods-train they are 'right'; and the first is correct English and the second a dialect." Americanisms, which have been forcing their way into English since the early 19th Century, have lately "been entering at a truly dizzy pace." Two causes: i) British cinemaddicts absorb more U. S. talkies than their own. 2) "The influence of 125,000,000 people, practically all headed in one direction, is simply too great to be resisted by any minority, however...
After the first conference, Harvard representatives, thinking that they might have been in error for years through some slip long since forgotten, asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules Committee for the correct interpretation of the rules and were informed that by unanimous vote of the Committee the Ellis-Loomis bout was a draw and that the Olney-Huffman bout should have been given to Olney, making the final score of the meet 5 1/2-2 1/2 for Harvard...
...attend this meeting and participate in the discussion. The conclusions and resolutions reached will be determined from the combined votes of members and those just "auditing" the affair, thus giving more weight to the final decisions. Provided that enough bright, enthusiastic young men filled with a desire to correct the many evils of this wicked world attend the meeting, this new idea should prove a howling success and give the Union an new lease on life...