Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some ways, the situation at Yale before the preference system was dropped resembled that presently found at Harvard. Each year two or three Colleges received far more applications than they had room for; there was one College which usually got an approximately correct number, and the rest were underapplied. Certain types of students were thought to predominate in each College: The prep school contingent in Davenport, the athletes in Calhoun...
...that lives in the words of the Prophets and the deeds of Brigham Young," lectures a Mormon, "does not manifest itself exclusively in enormous truths which can only be contained in the brains of university professors; no, it lives also in the sewing machines of people who yesterday had correct thoughts, certainly, but no shirt." Laxness' Mormon men take sly pride in the number of wives they accumulate; their justifications of polyga my are delightfully specious: "Woman's salvation consists in having a righteous husband, and there can never be too many women sharing in such...
...There is a general shortage of instruments, teachers, and practice rooms. The basic reason for all this, say some German musicians, is that their country concentrated so intensely on physical reconstruction after the war that there was little time or inclination for cultural activities. Anxious to correct the situation, the Music Council has organized a new foundation for musical affairs. By providing scholarships and better facilities for young talent, the foundation hopes to make sure that Beethoven will continue to be played in the land...
DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of a letter in the Times answering Columbia group, agreed that the added amendments were "deeply regretted" but noted, however, that the Columbia committee had misinterpreted the amendment which, in correct form, has no application to persons who are of unregistered or uncondemned leftist organizations...
...could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant at a swindler. The only irritants that instantly roused him to anger were those...