Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soccer. Attendance is by cadet company, the companies participating en masse and taking turns at each of the sports included in the schedule. Participation in polo, golf, tennis and other minor sports is optional, but for those volunteering for these sports competent coaches and instructors are furnished to teach correct principles and methods...
...less pretentious but nonetheless admired is Philadelphia's manager and part owner, Cornelius ("Connie Mack") McGillicuddy. He has gained fame through baseball -and baseball alone. He attends every game his Athletics play, invariably sits in the same place in the dugout, seldom raises his voice to command or correct. He last brought an American League pennant to Philadelphia in 1914, has since then watched his team fluctuate between the cellar and the next-to-top story. Meanwhile the masticating jaws of the fans in the ball park and of others all over the world never stopped supplying Mr. Wrigley...
...TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...
Died. Samuel Clay Hildreth, 63, famed oldtime turfman; in Manhattan; after an operation to correct intestinal disorders...
...Although I endeavored to correct the impression of foreign diplomats that the condition of Austria was very grave and bordering on revolution," said he in a startling official interview, "I must admit that I did not altogether succeed...