Word: sic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orthography of a foreign tongue, had slipped once or twice in spelling. So, to drum up interest in the articles they were about to publish, to make a better profit from the poor Queen's efforts to earn a little money, they published her letter pointing out mistakes-sic...
...editors of The Crimson, typifying the austerity and the dignity that supposedly enwraps the Harvard man, apathetically remarks (sic) in an editorial that the lack of a mascot is cause for satisfaction rather than for regret. In part it says: "While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage of even so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup: Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was the father only to a gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...
...spelling, Gerard H. Matthes of Manhattan, in a recent letter to Science, weekly organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, pointed out that in writings of half a century ago and earlier, it was stated that the name was given because of the "muscle shells" (sic) found there. "Muscle" seems to have been the original form and was applied because of the strong muscle which holds the two shells of these bivalves together. In 1875, a standard dictionary did not give any variant to the spelling "muscle shell," and not until about 1895 was the form "mussel...
...Triumvirate (Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev) ordered Trotzky's magnificent train-it included a diner, sleeper, library car and Avas fitted with a printing press and a radio set-to be uncoupled and put on the regular railway service. The 150 men employed on the train have been discharged. Sic transit gloria Trotsky...
...this is timely, and in the right (sic) direction, also correlative with the trend of modern culture (sic). Art should be crowded into the Box Office, there is no room for it on the stage. Art was at one time the acknowledged leader (Premium Mobile) of Education. Art has been rudely trucked to Hell. Education will most certainly follow,--weeping...