Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...until he came to an incidental mention of the word "Japan." Then he added extemporaneously: "Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty on history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was ever truly neutral even before America came into...
Cabled TIME Correspondent John Scott: "It would be incorrect to conclude that the Germans plan to abandon Norway without a fight...
...Your story stated that Mrs. Hobby was a graduate of the University of Texas. This is totally incorrect. Mrs. Hobby has never received any degree whatsoever from this institution. . . . A number of stories appeared in the press after her appointment as head of the WACs, and it was clearly determined at that time that Mrs. Hobby had no earned college degree of any sort. I think she has probably received an honorary degree since she became head of the WACs...