Word: corrector
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...NASA committee investigating the defect that has crippled the $1.5 billion telescope announced yesterday that the millimeter mistake was found while testing the measuring device, called a null corrector...
...Associates. Based in Manhattan, Lifeboat (projected 1981 sales: $10 million) sells some 200 different software packages through retail stores and catalogues. The company, which publishes only programs written by freelance authors, was founded in 1977 by Anthony Gold, 35, a former Citibank officer. Among its offerings are the spelling corrector MicroSpell and the expense account helpmate T-Maker...
...spot. He beats around the bush and pours out his trite interpretations whether they are relevant or not. He writes what he has been told to write beforehand, without using his own brain as a middleman. He uses a few cliches until they turn to ashes in the corrector's mouth...
...latter card will be an interesting test of the corrector's ability to judge impartially. It may be that on receipt of his post card, with another added for good measure from University Hall, the southern vacationer will find himself free to continue studying history for the rest of the year in Palm Beach...
...great need, as any corrector of examinations will assert with great fervour, is to teach students to organize ideas, to write with reasonable lucidity. Reading, of course, is necessary, but it should be strictly subordinated to composition. In the first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...