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...Lansdowne: "False!" Lawyer Reid: "Will you tell the Court wherein the statement is incorrect...
...look for letters from your readers. So far the general trend of your editorial replies to them has been sarcastic and not-to-the-point and incomplete, such as, for instance, your treat-ment of the replies calling your attention to the fact that you had used the incorrect name in dealing with a former Supreme Court Justice as to his being a Roman Catholic or not. I think every bit as much publicity should be given to your corrections and replies as to your original articles...
...events. Your writers however should make sure of their facts before publication. In your issue of June 8, Page 6, under the heading COMMONWEALTH, you state that in connection with the 60th birthday of King George there was no official holiday in the Dominions beyond the seas. This is incorrect. In this country, June 3, King's Birthday, is a statutory holiday and is observed as a close holiday by all Government offices, banks and business houses...
TIME believes that if Original Subscriber Westman will inquire of the John Murphy Co., he will find that the manual was technically incorrect and that TIME was correct...
...comparatively recent addition to the English language, formed on the adverb "broadcast." It is an accepted rule that coined words should be inflected regularly and, in this case, "broadcasted" would be the regular past tense of a weak verb. "Broadcast" as the past tense is, then, technically incorrect...