Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a teaching disk is inserted in the machine, a question appears in a slot. The student then writes his answer in the place provided. He pushes a lever and his answer slides up beneath a glass plate, so that changes cannot be made. At the same time, the correct answer is revealed in another slot. The process continues until all questions on the disk have been correctly answered...
Several students in the course have sought to complete the work more rapidly by managing to advance the disk on the machine so that the question and answer are revealed simultaneously. According to Skinner, an analysis of the series of punched holes on the answer sheet will show instructors when this has been done. "We're bringing out a new model next year that will eliminate all possibility of cheating," he added...
...from wills and deeds to more complicated jobs-the resuscitation of hard-hit bond and mortgage companies. Soon he was senior partner in a firm of 20 lawyers, and he took on the habit of chain-smoking his cigars. He learned to take two solemn puffs before he ever answered a question, particularly questions he was tempted to answer...
...Chicago Daily News, and was hired by the P-D in 1913 at 22. Fitz devised dingy Rat Alley as a cartoonland home for the criminal and corrupt, and his victims squirmed to find themselves there. Wailed one Missouri politician to a P-D staffer: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you do with that guy who draws cartoons?" Says Fitz: "I've made an awful lot of people goddam...
...last week and saw the most horrible sight a museum man can imagine. Smoke was pouring from his museum's shattered glass façade; firemen were scrambling up ladders, axes in hand. In the distance was the wail of more fire engines bucking Manhattan traffic to answer the three alarms signaling the worst museum fire in U.S. history...