Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard: "Correct! Pay that man eight dollars...
...stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct Lynnewood Hall at Elkins Park he showed only his best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia's dismay) some $50,000,000 worth of oil paint's primest pedigrees: more than 100 "best...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...
...replace the needle in the old compass, pick up currents from the earth's magnetic field. This energy is converted into tiny electrical impulses, then amplified to turn a hand on a dial, showing the navigator the plane's direction. Inside this dial are mechanisms that automatically correct errors resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb...
...ultimate goal to make all the people take part in the administration of state affairs. . . . However . . . the democratic spirit lies in the observance of law and discipline. If I should ever transgress the limit of my power, it is the duty of every citizen to censure and correct...