Word: incorrection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thank you for the many compliments in your write-up of me and my lucky week at Forest Hills [TIME, Sept. 17] . . . However, the impression that I received lessons from Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom in exchange for retrieving tennis balls is incorrect. He received payment from my family for my instruction from the beginning...
Correct Thinking. "Incorrect" thoughts in Red China may be punished by anything up to death. "Correct" thoughts can often be the sure path to success. This probably explains why millions of mainland Chinese are engaged in hsueh hsi and why Red China has a dedicated army which rarely breaks, an efficient and incorruptible corps of administrators, and a zealous youth ready to believe that black is white and to die for that warped belief...
...Internal Revenue concluded that one in four returns are wrong by at least $2, and almost always in the taxpayer's favor. Worst offenders are farmers, professional men and owners of small businesses. The trouble lies not in innocent mistakes of addition, the bureau found, but in incorrect statements of income, too generous personal deductions, bogus exemptions for dependents. Altogether such "errors," as the bureau politely calls them, probably cheated the Government out of $1 billion...
Your May 28 reference that Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, "onetime Premier of Italy, is the last surviving member of World War I's Versailles Treaty-makers" is incorrect if it is admitted that the Rt. Hon. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was one of the Treaty-makers...
...draft act opened, students have been hearing that they should await passage of this bill before acting. Some have taken this to mean that the new measure would solve all their problems and make clear what would happen to them. This impression is, in at least one way, incorrect. What the students are actually waiting for is action by the Chief Executive; in the new bill as in the Selective Service Act now on the books the president has all authority to defer students...