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Word: correctives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch? And had she really aimed and fired a shotgun at herself? And, if her story was correct that she fired three times, who reloaded the gun and fired the fourth shot? Finally, Lawyer Weyer asked himself again and again, why was Violet so determined to admit her guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Case of the Spattered Ceiling | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Communist North Viet Nam published a decree ordering full freedom of religion, thus becoming the first Red nation in Asia to deviate publicly from the Moscow line. The order, said Radio Hanoi, was intended to correct "a mistaken policy of the government in the past." In all likelihood it was also intended to woo back some of the 700,000 Roman Catholics who fled to free South Viet Nam to escape Communist persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...automation, says a Bell Telephone Laboratories executive, miniaturization makes possible the tiny servo-mechanisms, i.e., electronic brains, which, built into machines, direct all their operations, automatically correct their errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINIATURIZATION.: How to Grow Bigger By Growing Smaller | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Council is correct in advocating office space for all organizations which desire it. But this space should be in the Houses, thus fulfilling a present need, while strengthening the 25-year old House system against the growing pains of a future Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Executive Suite | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

...acquired the assets of two small oil companies, Pitt Petroleums Ltd. and Depositors Mutual Oil Development Co. SEC took a look at the oil and asset claims and told the company they were not justified. After receiving an amended version, SEC sent a second objection. The company promised to correct its report, did not do so until after the hearing was scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Sweet to Sour | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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