Word: incorrection
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Herr Oskar Altmann, a stiff-backed Prussian of the old school, and his wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped...
...rate, the College made more correct investment decisions than incorrect ones, and the phenomenal rise in assets can be attributed largely to the sound policies of University treasurers--all of whom have had professional experience in financial matters since the appointment of Boston merchant Thomas Brattle...
...Incorrect statements concerning my relations with Dr. Robert Oppenheimer are made in TIME, April 26. I have known Oppenheimer well since 1926. I have the highest regard for his scientific ability, his patriotism and his trustworthiness in all respects...
...rate, the College made more correct investment decisions than incorrect ones, and the phenomenal rise in assets can be attributed largely to the sound policies of University treasurers--all of whom have had professional experience in financial matters since the appointment of Boston merchant Thomas Brattle...
...APPALLED, AMAZED, ASTOUNDED AND SICKENED BY YOUR ILL-BASED, ILL-CONCEIVED, ILL-DESIGNED AND FANTASTICALLY INCORRECT PIECE ON "PAY-AS-YOU-SEE TV" [TIME, Feb 1] . . . THIS IS EITHER A HIGH MARK OF STUPIDITY OR AN UNBELIEVABLE PEAK IN PUBLIC IGNORANCE . . . OVER 2,000 RADIO STATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN BORN, NURSED, AND FINANCIALLY MATURED IN SPITE OF YOUR NONSENSICAL IMPLICATION THAT ADVERTISING COMMERCIALS ARE DISAPPROVED . . . PAY-AS-YOU-SEE TV IS THE MOST IDIOTIC, IMPRACTICAL AND ABSURD IDEA FOSTERED IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC MEDIA . . . NEXT TO RADIO, TV IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT ADVERTISING MEDIUM CREATED...