Word: sic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pass degree exist, practically speaking, at the present time. I do not believe that the general examinations should be abolished for any class of students. Tutorial instruction has always been optional. This is the most important feature of the system. It allows students who do not feel themselves benefited (sic) to use their time otherwise and if thereby gives the tutor more time to devote to students who are using the instruction to advantage...
Meticulous TIME! Jan. 9, 1933, p. 55; col. 3: "somebody else's" (sic...
...sitting up late to hear the returns. To London, President-elect Roosevelt said: "It was a very fine victory. I am very tired but very well-and not very excited." To the headquarters staff he said: "There are two people in the United States more than any one else (sic) who are responsible for the great victory. One is my old friend and associate Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and the other is that great American, Jim Farley." President Hoover's message, dispatched from Palo Alto at 9:17 p. m. Pacific time, said: "I congratulate you on the opportunity...
Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year...
...They ought to left [sic] the father out there a couple of more days just to throw a scare into him for taking those children."-Will Rogers...