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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raises bees and flowers at his home, "Nestledown," in Vermont. He said: "No one who has carefully observed the tortuous course of the Soviet regime in Russia, with respect to both its foreign policies and domestic affairs, can entertain any sensible doubt that Secretary Hughes is entirely correct in his contention that the Soviet Government, the Russian Communist (Bolshevist) Party and the Communist (or Third) Internationale are in reality three phases of one movement. The interlocking directorates of the three, together with the spiritual identity manifested by an unbroken and unfaltering unison of avowal and of practice, conclusively prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Forgery? | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...introduced by the Arabs in the 12th Century. Dr. Spinden has worked out a day-by-day correlation between Mayan and Gregorian calendars showing that while the Mayas did not interpolate leap-year days in their calendar year of 365 days, they allowed for them, and their calculations were correct, while our present calendar is a day out in about 3300 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils, Bones | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...thing the smoking habit does not seem to be so prevalent in the class of 1927. Each year statistics have been collected in regard to the number of men who smoke, and although these figures may not be absolutely correct, they are at least comparatively accurate. 32.5 per cent of this year's Freshmen class are smokers while the percentage in 1921 was 48 per cent and in 1922 was 37 per cent. There is probably some slight tendency to a decrease in smoking due to an increased participation in athletic exercises. In one of the graduate schools, 53 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICAL RECORDS SHOW IMPROVEMENT | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

...success of such work depends upon the dentistry, as the making of splints for jaws is dental work, and perfect coordination between 'dentist and surgeon was essential. The aim of the Army work was not to improve on nature, but simply to attempt to restore lost parts and correct defects due to injuries and deep scars-in short to counteract mutilations in the best possible way. In many War hospitals, women artists were employed to make permanent records of the cases by drawings, watercolors, waxwork and clay modeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Faces | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...even professors in various departments. In such a case a large part of the faculty, you would have us believe, are sadly given to "threats" and "mere whims" in their judgment of undergraduates. Far from charging the faculty with humiliation because some undergraduates do not write reasonably correct and sensible English, the a CRIMSON should compliment the faculty in recognizing a difficulty and developing an effective cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/21/1923 | See Source »

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