Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senators felt that President Hoover was afraid to reveal the true inwardness of Prohibition. Senators Norris, Borah and Brookhart each claimed to possess a mass of evidence which, they said, would "blow the lid off" Dry enforcement. Their honest purpose was to lay bare its evils and attempt to correct them...
...Your telegram of February 26 has been received and will be laid before the President. As our delegation has been unceasing in its support of every proposal and every possibility of reduction in armaments, I am anxious to know who has given you information otherwise. I should like to correct this misimpression at its source, and will be indebted to you. If you can give me information in confidence as to who it is who inspired your action...
...other words, the average teacher in the average school in the average town is, on the whole, and as a rule, average. Correct, professor! You can go to the head of the class. You have demonstrated beyond conceivable doubt not only the accuracy but the sublime averageness of your statistics. --New York Tribune...
...superior in oratory" depends largely upon what meanings he attaches to those terms. If by "outgeneralled their adversaries" he means that the Boston College speakers succeeded in discussing national prohibition rather than the effects and merits of the proposed repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts, he is correct. If by "marshalled arguments more skilfully" he means that Boston College was able to get away without giving specific, comprehensive answers to pertinent questions, asked by the Harvard speakers, he is correct. If "serious and dignified" refer to demeanor, probably he is correct. I believe that the diction...
...tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit of one of the greatest...