Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra glanced at their music, Song of the Volga Boatmen, scored for wind instruments and percussion, poised their instruments, as their eyes turned on the conductor. His baton twitched. "Boom" went the bass-drum in answer. It answered again and again, its portentious stroke punctuating the strains of the Boat Song, composed by Stravinsky, conducted by Stravinsky...
...education over long periods of time is too much for an average child's mind and eventually too much for its body. All of which the World endorses by renewing an old idea in the ''development of the work-play-study school," which seems the logical answer to the nation's educational problems. But if the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, the Marys, Janes and Joans ever catch their fathers and mothers agreeing to the monstrous proposal that summer, Christmas and Easter vacations are not an inseparable part of school curricula, their cereals will not remain uneaten...
Intelligence Metre. A machine to give intelligence tests, which holds up a printed question until a key is pressed giving an answer, was described. It records the number of correct answers or, in cases where there are several possible answers, the number of answers made before the right one is given.-Dr. S. L. Pressey, Ohio State University...
...stories about box victims, drink-mad stabbers, love-cult brides, modern Bluebeards, poisoned toadstools ,and incendiary spinsters together with more important social and political items. Then a flurry of circumstances had caused him to cease buying newspapers; he had found he got on comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip...
...item in his paper was unimportant, he argues that all items are unimportant . . . Not so long ago some shots were fired at royalty in an insignificant village near the Serbian border. The Bartonized man would have asked 'What difference does it make?' He had-and has -his answer . . . Make a mistake some day [in a newspaper] and see what happens . . . Knowledge is fed from four main springs...