Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FATHER . . . GAVE MY BROTHER ROWLAND A FINE BIG FLOUR MILL WHICH BUILT ITSELF INTO A POWERFUL BUSINESS. KNOWING YOUR DESIRE FOR ACCURACY, WHICH I CAN WELL JUDGE FROM THE EXTENTS TO WHICH RESEARCH WAS DONE BY YOUR REPORTERS BOTH IN ENGLAND AND HERE, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL CORRECT THESE UNFORTUNATE . . STATEMENTS ABOUT MY LATE BROTHER. MY FAMILY AND I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL, INDEED...
...machine in this unique operation is the teletypesetter perforator, which looks like a glorified electric typewriter. With it, by pressing the correct keys, a 'typesetter punches combinations of holes in a narrow paper tape. When completed, this tape contains not only the holes which correspond to all the words and punctuation in the story he has set but also holes which control the spacing so that every line will come out the right length. When this tape is fed into a transmitter it 1) makes correctly-spaced typewritten copy for our proofreaders and make-up men; 2) reproduces itself...
...help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. On the March 1947 TIME Current Affairs Test, the scores of TIME readers (as reported in letters to TIME's editors) averaged 78, ranging from...
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0. the number 3-standing for Truman-has been placed at the right of 0. on the answer sheet...
...significance of the atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved to be the real news of atomic fission...