Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the vision, the correct idea, the working knowledge of what it's all about. Keep...
...belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious and unobtrusively about...
Philologically, Mr. Schaye is correct, but the common translation given to the word Reich is Empire, and its current meaning is Empire to most Germans...
This is not quite correct. In the German language, Reich means Realm, State. Only by attaching another word, it gets a specialized meaning...
...President of the Woman's world null I would like to correct the impression which you have given (in the issue of Apr. 27, Page 5), that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick was the originator of the Woman's World Fair...