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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this estimate be correct, M. Poincaré's new bloc (composed of Republicans of varying hue) is safe; for what every lazy French voter wants is security, religious peace, reparations, administrative reform and economy, and those things are what the Premier is striving to give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Election Trend | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well as train actors and expert stage managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL THE THING | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...quite absent from the mechanical sameness of the machine. But such artists would not be the despair of their section-men; their writing is legible as well as beautiful. To the instructor who has the misfortune to have some dozens of reports of these to correct, the typewriter if he can persuade his students to use it proves an unqualified blessing. And the instructor's gratitude for finding a read able production cannot fail to reach perhaps unconsciously to the advantage of the sagacious author. Altogether, there seems to be no inconsiderable basis for the well-known advertisement "Typewrite your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MECHANICAL--AND DAMNED | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...Rochester to confer with representatives of the Eastman Kodak Company about a new camer which he is having constructed. The popularity of the Silhouetteograph has been such as to warrant continued experimentation by Mr. Fradd, and a general installation of this camera, especially in colleges, where the problem of correct posture is common, may be expected in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRADD'S POSTURE METHODS EARN MUCH COMMENDATION | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

...Bellamy, however is probably quite correct in assuming that the great newspaper reading public is coming more and more to insist on accurate news; even Hamiton's "great bast" can learn a little from continued experience. That readers grow irritated when they find they have been allowed or even encouraged to believe perversions of the truth is becoming increasingly evident. One great Metropolitan daily goes to the extent of having a regular department devoted, when necessary, to a correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPICY PRESENT | 4/29/1924 | See Source »

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