Search Details

Word: correcting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Better omit foreign words from TIME unless you get them correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...feel particularly sensitive about your casting such aspersions against Boston, as that was the only town in America where a speech of mine was quoted correctly. I had no idea, when I consented to give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...your article of July 8 on the fallen statue of the "Christian Student" at Princeton University, you referred to the University Proctors as "Mike" Hogarty & Company. As one who has had a "run-in" with the Proctors while at Princeton, I wish to correct you. It should be Frank Hogarty & Company. Other Proctors are: "Mike" Kopliner and Harry Cawley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...correct translation for Kijkuit would be "The Lookout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Engineer Gibson is correct. TIME's definition was loose.-ED. Tags Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next