Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, that unemployment has grown less of late. The New Dealers should be the first to admit that. They maintain that government spending produced a wave of recovery, and that the Roosevelt recession came only when pump-priming was halted. For them to deny that public money has helped correct economic distress would be pointless self-castigation. Sullivan and Krock have only misunderstood, or misinterpreted, the New Deal protest at Miss Thompson's figures...
...prevent any false impressions among your readers, may I correct a few of your statements about our institution? In the first place, dancing is not quite the nightly pastime here that you would have your readers believe. Only once on weekday evenings (Tuesday) are there any more than half a, dozen students in Collection Hall, then only for half an hour. Weekend dances are mostly informal, open to limited groups only...
...lasted for ten terrible minutes. "The targets," remarked General Dyer, "were good." The official casualty list was 379 killed, 1,200 wounded. From Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer, fire-eating Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, next day came the message: "Your action correct. Lieutenant Governor approves." Other Britons and most Indians decidedly did not approve the massacre of Amritsar...
Pollak, in a letter to the Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
...investment; a theorist, he sees the unscrambling of utilities as just that. To force it, he will render increasingly unpopular decisions; fewer & fewer friends will friendly Jerome Frank have. Consoling him is his strong belief that friends and foes have an ultimate community of interest. If his theory proves correct, future U. S. investors may well thank him for being a pioneer...