Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm in La Grange, Ill. He always answers questions, though sometimes cryptically. He does not brag. Once he was a clerk...
...entirely independent of the Executive. It is obvious that continuance of discussions between the two Governments at this time will not in itself serve any useful purpose. What is really important in the final analysis of the question is that the American people shall have come to a correct understanding of our people and of our points of view. An impetuous mood or an impassioned utterance will not conduce to an international understanding...
...King Cole, by his memorable request for three fiddlers, demonstrated to posterity that his knowledge of musical symmetry was lamentably deficient. Four is, and has always been, the correct number. The better informed monarchs of today, care they to importune the music of sweet strings, always summon four and frequently, it is said, call for the Flonzaleys by name. There are few finer fiddlers than these quick-fingered gentlemen. Last week they gave a concert in Manhattan...
Steps in the direction advocated by Mr. Stoddard are being taken by the Department of Physical Education according to Mr. N. W. Fradd of that department. Men with poor postures are being helped to correct their faults by a system of exercises and examinations...
...Service, for a number of years prior to 1923, there was an average of one passenger casualty on U. S. railroads for about every 2,000,000 miles. There is a vast difference between a fatality and a casualty and, even if the information given in the footnote were correct, the comparison is not justified. Believing that you would be interested in accurate data as to fatalitities and casualties on American railroads, I quote the following from a letter 1 have received from Mr. B. B. Adams of the Railway Age, New York, in response to my letter in which...