Word: incorrection
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...news story of September 25, concerning draft deferments for college men, is incorrect as far as can be discovered by talking with State Headquarters...
...typhoid and two of undulant fever, reported by Philadelphia's Dr. Hobart Reimann to the New York Academy of Medicine, streptomycin chalked up five cures out of seven. The results are still far from conclusive, but the failures, said Dr. Reimann, might easily have been caused by incorrect dosage and a still insufficient supply of the drug...
...details of that report might be incorrect, but there appeared to be no doubt about the general intention: Austria, which after World War I was too small an economic unit to get along, after World War II would be divided into still smaller fragments. Presumably the partitioning would be a temporary measure, but its effects would last long after the period of occupation was over...
UNDER SPORTS (Jan. 8) YOU STATE "[WASHINGTON WAS SORELY IRKED] BY THE INCREASE IN WAR-PLANT ABSENTEEISM DURING LOS ANGELES' RECENT HOLLYWOOD PARK MEETING." THIS STATEMENT IS ERRONEOUS AND COMPLETELY INCORRECT. THE OFFICIAL WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION FIGURES FOR THE WAR FACTORIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB AS WELL AS IN THE GENERAL LOS ANGELES AREA SHOW AN AVERAGE DECREASE IN ABSENTEEISM DURING [THE RACING SEASON] THIS STATEMENT COMING OUT NOW IN TIME COMES LIKE A BOX ON THE EARS TO A SPORT THAT IS ALREADY HOLDING THE BACK OF ITS PANTS FOR HAVING BEEN SO BADLY...
...incorrect use of a word in TIME brings me the same gloating feeling as catching the Boss in an error! . . . Adjectives are compared, not conjugated...