Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian and military needs and some to spare, Alcoa was already delaying deliveries on some of its civilian orders. Mr. Gibbons said that the Stettinius office so far as he knew had not consulted Alcoa before issuing the statement, and that Alcoa did not feel called upon to correct the estimate. > Committee Counsel Hugh Fulton declared that Alcoa had "refused" to make the deliveries (particularly to Mr. Reynolds' company, which had previously processed Alcoa aluminum and was then looming as a competitor). Said Mr. Gibbons, denying the charges: "You use such hard words, Mr. Fulton, you make me flinch...
...purposes. Many students, and their families have been contributing all year long to French, Finnish, Greck, as well as British relief drives, and at the year's end, their accounts, already sagging, were further depleted by the House dances. Though most of the committee feel that the Crimson is correct in assailing Harvard's miserliness, I believe every penny helps, and urge every Harvard man to continue contributing whatever he can spare to British Relief. E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, Chairman, Harvard British War Relief Committee...
Your note about Oscar the seal in the Miscellany column [TIME, April 7] was not completely correct. I know as I met Captain Knowles very recently on a trip to Havana. He had owned Oscar ten years ago when the seal was only a few months old. One day a neighbor allowed Oscar to escape from his pen in the Captain's garden and until a few months ago no more was seen...
good teeth, sound physical condition, and a nervous temperament suitable for flying. Those who are in doubt about passing these requirements can take a preliminary free exam at the recruiting station that takes only 20 minutes and is 95 percent correct. No arrangements have yet been made with the Hygiene Department which his its hands full in giving preliminary exams to draftees...
...saying "meek as Moses" rests almost entirely on one bad slip in the King James Bible, Numbers 12:3: "Now the man Moses was very meek. . . ." The correct translation of the original Hebrew is "vexed," which confirms the Old Testament's report that Moses killed an Egyptian for smiting a Hebrew, that after the incident of the golden calf he ordered Hebrews to slay "every man his brother...