Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud of. But someone is always awakening people from their little dreams. The recently organized "Committee on Everyday English", which is associated with the University Extension, has flatly asserted that English is the true tongue of America; and worse still, it intends to "restore the archaic and correct to popular speech until the latter shall become a well of English, pure and undefiled...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...
...there was a deficit of 37,241,788.64 pesos in the budget for the first nine months of this year, which had been made good by a transfer of 37,224,878.22 pesos from funds which should have been applied to the exterior debt. He dealt with remedies to correct the situation. President Alvaro Obregon, in a paper entitled Presidential Comments, backed up the charges made by Senor Pani against General de la Huerta. Said...
...itself, the people of Massachusetts builded far worse than they knew last year at the polls when they defeated moving picture censorship, not for themselves, but for their children's children. For with a board of censors, some great director might be rushed in at the last moment to correct the work of a loose-minded scenario writer. And so poring, five hundred years hence, over dusty celluloid strips, the student might come suddenly upon a treasure a bit of dialogue by Ince, or an art title in the hand of D. W. Griffith...
...familiar occurrence was seen last week regarding the future prospects of American business. The West is prosperous and optimistic; the East is prosperous but rather pessimistic and cautious. Which view is correct only time can reveal. But in cases where this contradiction in judgments has occurred before the East has invariably been nearer the truth. In the Spring of 1920 the stock market turned downwards and the West declared its fears ungrounded. But that Fall disastrous liquidation set in practically all over the country...