Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement on p. 56 of TIME for Feb. 25 that the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society has been awarded to only two U.S. citizens is not correct...
...shapes-with irregular snouts that might be used as handles in forward passing; with fat sides to make punts fly short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from 11 to 11½ inches, entire surface to be convex, and inflated not more than 15 pounds, nor less than 13 pounds...
...period, nor one more than ordinarily interested in the history of the amazing growth to power of the House of Rothschild, for one who wishes to get some light on its development and influence, Mr. Ravage's book is well designed, and, so far as it goes, essentially correct...
...highest fee ever paid a woman singer. But she offended the politician-backer, sang badly and had to be hustled out of the city to save her skin. The experience shook her confidence, ruined Gonsalvo. For Gonsalvo she magnanimously provided, for herself there was Ashley Jocelyn, considerate, correct...
Southern Pacific, William Crocker inherited the Crocker fortune and the First National Bank of San Francisco. As a second-generation tycoon, he is ultraconservative, correct, distant, cosmopolitan. Traditional even in his recreations, he is an ardent golfer...