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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first demonstration had marched such men as Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Undergraduates were not so startled. They guessed the target of President Ruthven's ire: the campus' noisy chapter of the American Student Union, which had spent a busy spring denouncing U. S. "war plans," and failing to denounce the Communazis. Last week their guess was proved correct and President Ruthven showed that he was not fooling. To a number of Michigan students (the A. S. U. said nine), home for vacation, he sent a curt lote: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University that you cannot be readmitted to the University." Others got warnings. Pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Warning Note | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Famed conman and gambler, shot in 1898 in a Skagway brawl. * Correct "Labor omnia vincit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2?standing for Roosevelt?has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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