Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second floor of the Brattle Building in an office devoid of furnishings, Wetzel and seven of his colleagues have founded the Intelligence Testing Bureau. To date the Bureau has been known to the people of Cambridge only through the cryptic advertisements it has placed in the local newspapers...
Although these ads offer "IQ Measurement," the Bureau does not use slide rules or logarithmic tables to perform the measuring. It employs one hour popular tests, the Stanford-Bizet for the younger set, and the Wecheler-Believeze for those with Social Security Cards, to determine "mental capacity...
...present the Bureau is a part-time affair, but this summer, while others are away at the beaches, the entrepreneurs want to dig in. And when winter rolls around, they expect to be firmly established in their enterprise...
Because of the reduced numbers of returning servicemen, the Veterans Office will undertake a streamlined scale of operations after Munro moves up from his present post of assistant counselor to direction of the bureau on July...
...handle educational problems caused by rapid demobilization of the armed forces, the Counselor for Veterans Office assumed the tasks of 1) advising servicemen with schooling problems, whether or not they intended to matriculate here, 2) helping veterans seeking admission to the University, and 3) acting as liaison bureau between the University and the Veterans Administration...