Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of this ruling, the girl who wishes to cheat is actually only slightly less safe from exposure in a mixed exam than she is in an all-Radcliffe exam. Harvard regulations provide for one proctor for every 30 students taking the test; Radcliffe requires only one proctor in each examination room, no matter how many students...
...whole 600-acre farm. Carl Austin Hall had a mentally deficient older brother who died at five in a mental institution, sent there because "the folks didn't want Carl brought up around him." But as a boy, Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money without working. When he was eleven, his mother, trying to keep him busy and out of scrapes, paid the local telephone company to hire him as a lineman's helper. The experiment failed, and Carl was shipped away...
...Munn of Michigan State, whose football team has not lost a game since the fall of 1950, is a methodical man. On the wall of the Spartans' dressing room at East Lansing hangs a statement on Munn fundamentals which the team rereads before every home game: "Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do. [Signed] Biggie." Before every game, Coach Munn also calls his squad together for silent prayer. No one is supposed to pray for victory, but last week, with Michigan State trailing Texas Christian...
Because such transgression is rare and is handled with a minimum of sensation, most Princetonians are not aware of any infractions around them. "I never saw a student cheat on exams in my 4 years," they frequently...
Prew takes it without a word for months on end. They trip him in bayonet drill, cheat him in rifle inspection, and for every fault they find, Prew has to pay with K.P., extra laps around the track under full pack, or hours of digging enormous holes in the ground so that jeering noncoms can bury a single newspaper. (In the movie, Captain Holmes is forced to resign for his actions; in the book, he was promoted...