Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes wished they knew the correct answer. Remembering that between offensive and defensive moves, psychopathic Hitler usually chooses what he believes is the defensive (see p. 28), they took little comfort from reports that aged King Gustav V had followed broadcasts of tennis matches between Sweden and Croatia with "great excitement...
...admitted losses, in general ("We have most certainly suffered losses . . . and we shall suffer more. . . . We Americans have been compelled to yield ground, but we will regain it") and-to correct "rumormongers" and "poison peddlers" for "damnable misstatements," gave the final score on Pearl Harbor in particular: killed, 2,340; wounded, 946. "Of all the combatant ships based on Pearl Harbor," added the President, "only three were permanently put out of commission...
...Institute's instructors, more expert as teachers than the Army men who teach R.O.T.C., save time by applying tricks of their trade, e.g.: they find that students catch on faster when they explain the principles of physics underlying correct body positions for shooting a rifle. At the end of a 15-hour course, taught by English Professor Norman F. Maclean, onetime forest ranger, four out of five of the Institute's marksmanship students qualify as small-bore "expert riflemen...
...correct some of their mistakes, Professor Morison decided to apply the alfresco, learn-by-doing methods that Francis Parkman used for his History of France in the New World. In the summer of 1939 Morison and some friends bought the barkentine, Capitana, which was "near enough to Columbus' larger ships in rig and burthen to enable us to cross the ocean under conditions very similar to those of his day. . . ." In the Capitana they explored the European end of Columbus' routes, then headed back across the Atlantic. "Our crossing from Gomera to Trinidad was approximately on the route...
...CORRECT ANSWERS Numerals printed in italics are correct answers to the 105 questions in Current Affairs Test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with...