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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four men, candidates for the University and Freshman squads, reported for fall baseball practice at the meeting held in the Locker Building yesterday afternoon Coach Mahan found time enough to break away from his gridiren duties, and addressed the candidates He pointed out the need of intelligent work to correct the weak nesses of the various men. Battery Coach Fred Mitcheli also spoke a few words of advice addressed particularly to the pitchers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL BASEBALL SEASON STARTS WITH 54 MEN | 9/26/1924 | See Source »

Students will fill out and hand in their application cards, as in the past, and will then go to the far end of the room and form a line at the cashier's desk. In the meantime the applications will be verified to make sure that the signatures are correct. Then the applications will be stamped with the receipt card numbers and the cashier will call off the names in order as they appear on the applications, and the student whose name has been called, will step up and pay the cashier for his tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SYSTEM TO SIMPLIFY APPLICATION FOR TICKETS | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

Christanity first became the socially correct religion by the fiat of Emperor Constantine the Great, then living. He was born at Nish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaea, Nish | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...Kent's assertions? First, the figures which he gives for the small newspapers are unverifiable, unless someone is willing to go through the 10,000 or so papers in question and make a critical estimate of their attitude. However, it may be assumed that his estimate is approximately correct. These small-town papers must in general be placed in a category separate from the metropolitan press. Their power is wielded rather through their news than through their editorials. These papers as a whole gobble up the "news" releases of their respective parties' publicity bureaus. Because their bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Papers and Politics | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...Every honest man is as indignant as Mr. Davis is at a betrayal by anyone of the high trust of public office, but they also expect that in discussing a matter of such importance our political orators seek to present facts in their proper and correct relation to the welfare of the people. Common sense and fairness alike revolt at the suggestion that these individual derelictions, which the Administration has set out to punish, should outweigh, in the judgment of American citizens, the honesty and the accomplishments of the most successful business administration of Government our people have ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Maine | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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