Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that you and the Senate Naval Affairs Committee will undertake to ascertain the facts in this case and the policy of the U. S. Naval Academy. And should this policy prove to be contrary to the American spirit of equality, we hope that you will take steps to correct...
...line with this emphasis, the State Department has extended travel grants to a considerable number of distinguished journalists, novelists, and others. These visits not only provide the leaders of thought and opinion in our neighboring republics with an opportunity to correct many one sided and distorted views of our own country, but they also afford us an opportunity to modify mistaken notions concerning the other Americas'." he continued...
...opinion," telegraphed Green to John W. Darr '41 of the Council for Democracy in Education, "there is no justification for the discrimination practised by the Academy. I extend to you the support of the American Federation of Labor in your efforts to correct the wrong which was committed and to prevent the practice of race discrimination...
What this all adds up to is that Mr. Hicks is correct in saying that the British, though they fight for reasons of self-interest, are doing more to defeat Nazism than--say, the Progressive editors. Yet withal one may still regret, as do the editors, that we have become so bundled up with Britain. Certainly the defense drive has carried with it anti-laborism and undemocratic hysteria; certainly the dollar-a-year men are making every penny count in the defense of their class interests; certainly the American Century is not an epoch most democrats would enjoy living...
...inventions-the writer can follow one of three courses. He can hunt desperately for more facts with which to prop up the original lie; he can say nothing more about it and rely on his readers to forget the blunder; or he can frankly admit his mistake and correct the injustice...