Word: sic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight of several girls in gymnasium costume of bloomers and shirt waists taking part in a low hurdle race is not so common, even in these days, when exercise for women is generally approved, as to loose [sic] any of its novelty. And the girls do some good work, too. They take aptly to Mr. Graham's coaching and some of them acquire as good form as the men." The Herald coyly went on to point out that crowds of Cambridge men gathered each afternoon to watch the bloomer-clad girls exercise, and that two marriages of Summer School students...
...absorption in the music is nowhere better demonstrated than when he raises his cracked old voice in song. During the Traviata rehearsals he is sometimes the ardent young Alfredo, singing the aria De' miei bollenti spiriti, sometimes the gravely dignified Germont, making his moving plea to Violetta-Pura sic-come un angelo. In the most fascinating section of all, the old man launches into Violetta's famed Sempre libera, sounding hoarse, wildly off key, but somehow convincing in the aria's feverish abandon...
Sock the Rich. In Albuquerque, District Director Ernest W. Bacon of the Internal Revenue Service received 12? from a nine-year-old boy with a note attached: "Allowance, 50? per week, 50 times 26 [sic] equals $26; pulling nails, 25?; letting Joe hit me, 5?; not hitting him back, 3? ; cleaning up after dog, 25? ; painting doors, 50?; total $27.08. Spent all but 12?, am sending you and this makes me even...
Navy has five top-flight swimmers-Ashley Norfleet, in the free-style; George Worthington in the butterfly; Arnold Kieban in the backstroke; Pat Taft, intercollegiate 100-yard breast stroke champion; and Colonel (sic) Griffin, who last year set the American 200-yard breast stroke record, giving Navy an added versatility in that event. (Griffin has swum the individual medley in 2:12, far ahead of any of the varsity's performers...