Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night it seemed that the assembly was divided into two cheering sections, each urging on its chosen cohorts in the battle of wits on the stage. The amazing feature was that everyone took the caricaturing of his own race as a great joke. Caricature is, by the way, the correct word, for only the Irish girl most charmingly played by Miss Lorna Carroll, the Jewish boy, the priest and the rabbi, are in any sense real. The other roles were pure burlesque, although Mr. White as the old Jewish father, had moments of true dramatic power...
...student is asked to underline the correct answer...
...splendid achievements of her sons. A very pleasing tribute appears in a test of social intelligence given yesterday to students in George Washington University. Realizing that Harvard men hold high positions and are extremely versatile, Professor Moss, the originator of the examination, asks his students to underline the correct answer to certain important questions...
...vigorous demand for men to come out for the fall crew squad. "The more inexperienced a man is, the better he is suited to our purposes. If inexperienced men come out now, they can begin rowing under the personal supervision of the coaches and get the principles of rowing correct from the start...
...object of the new course is to teach a practicable method of approach for reaching correct decisions in both the economic and operating problems of public utility...