Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain, immaculate, bemonocled, rose from his seat. He read a unanimous resolution in which the League Council outlined its future action as follows: 1) A League Council Commission will proceed at once to fix responsibility for the outbreak, assess damages, see that all prisoners of war are released, and recommend steps calculated to prevent further trouble. 2) The Commission will be chairmaned by Sir Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Spain, and will consist of a French and an Italian officer and two civilians, respectively Dutch and Swedish. 3) It will have an allowance of 100,000 gold francs...
...destroy good relations between our two countries. They are Americans when they want money, but Sinn Feiners when on the platform. ... They are like zebras?either white horses with black stripes, or black horses with white stripes. We know they are not horses and some, people think they are assess but each ass can vote; and one of the inconveniences of republican government is that U.S.-born citizens "think it necessary to cater to these votes...
...columns were headed: Confidential Guide of College Courses. The editors had had the temerity to assess the curriculum from a student point of view, to give underclassmen (especially freshmen) the benefit of upper-classmen's experience, even to criticize professorial abilities in direct, humorous and detailed fashion...
...conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already, and stands well qualified to assess the value and wisdom of all one's elders...
...continues, "To assess the true educational value of the awards will require a study of the winning campaigns . . . together with the successful research problems and individual advertisements as they are later published and exhibited. . . .The jury believes that this first competition furnishes basis for confidence that the awards will accomplish the objectives desired...