Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 21, it was stated that the Conference voted away the eight-year time limit upon; the tenure of office of Methodist bishops . . . this phrase was incorrect. It should have been "tenure in a given residence...
...This is incorrect. So far as we have been able to learn,-and we have gone into it quite thoroughly-the first Air Cruise is the one scheduled by this organization, press announcements of which were made some three weeks prior to those concerning the Lloyd tour. Our Air Tour operates some two months in advance of the Lloyd trip and I cannot see how the North German Lloyd can conscientiously advertise their tour as being the first...
...Westerners, at least, of "University of Harvard" reads little more noticeably incorrect. . . . T. R. MULROY Chicago...
...dramatized seems to present a different situation, as in the case of the motion picture "Dawn", a British production. The German Government has successfully protested against the release, which deals with the death of Edith Cavell, as an objectionable theme and a misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...
...word Chinaman is not only quite incorrect but very offensive to the Chinese. One does not refer to an Englandman, and Americaman. So why a Chinaman...