Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Committee had the last word. Big, bluff Navy Secretary Frank Knox, who had blustered that the committee's figures on shipping losses were "very seriously off," conceded last week that the committee's figures were approximately correct...
...tall, bony-cheeked Boston brahmin arrived in India on Jan. 8. He had been entrusted by President Roosevelt with one of the most delicate diplomatic missions of the war. Always correct, hitherto adequate, William Phillips had been the last U.S. Ambassador to Italy. In India he was still called Ambassador. But at his first press conference he parried with a correct diplomatic laugh the question that all Indian nationalists were asking: "Are you an ambassador to His Majesty's Government, to the Government of India, or to the People of India...
Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...
...Thunder rolls on the Potomac when reference is made to Curmudgeon Ickes' middle name. Spelled sometimes Le Clair, sometimes Le Claire or LeClare, the correct spelling has never been discovered. Ickes intimates who have put the question, and survived, hint that LeClare is Ickes' most-favored version of his mosthated name...
...either situation both the White fund and the Clearing Union would try to correct the trade discrepancy. Significantly, however, the White plan places most emphasis on a nation which is constantly a debtor. With an eye on the U.S., Keynes insists on the responsibility of a creditor to accept, imports and lower tariffs...