Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the tests have been marked each question is studied on a special item analysis chart. A question of average difficulty is expected to be answered correctly by 60 percent of those trying to pick one of the five possible answers usually provided in ETS tests. If more people choose a particular wrong answer that the right one, the question is eliminated. This occasionally happens because of ambiguity on the part of the test-maker. An example of this is the following question included in a recent aptitude test...
...JUST LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BOSTON," said a full-page ad that ran in the Boston Post and six New York, Chicago and other metropolitan papers last week. What was happening, as an accompanying chart made clear, was that the Post had gained more than 100,000 advertising lines over a year ago, v. a minute gain for Hearst's Record-American, a drop of more than 175,000 lines for the Globe, and a drop of more than 300,000 for the Herald-Traveler. What was also happening in Boston was the hottest newspaper...
...keeping with its general timidity, it treated the "dollar gap" as the basic problem, and closing the gap as the solution. By doing so, it inadvertently gave aid and comfort to protectionists, who now argue that tariff reduction is unnecessary because the dollar gap is already closed (see chart). Data in the Randall commission's own recently published staff papers show that in 1953 U.S. imports ($17 billion) actually outran U.S. nonmilitary exports ($16.9 billion). But the dollar gap closed in 1953 only because foreign countries slashed their imports from the U.S., apart from military aid, by more than...
...wilderness with folk gods from their own history," and these gods have been constantly invoked and manipulated to suit present convenience. "Americans," says Woodward, "use their history as a substitute for political theory . . ." Instead of abstract principles, "we have sought our values, the meaning of our experience and a chart for the future in our history. The assumption has always been that there is in our past a sort of proto-American theory that, if properly understood, will prove adequate to all exigencies...
...small, multicolored chart tacked up in the School of Design outline a new plan that will revitalize architecture for the undergraduate. The six column chart, beginning with the sophomore year and extending through Design School, typifies the School's new close connection with the College...