Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted by Testers Terman and Merrill without being tried out by seven field investigators on some 3,000 schoolchildren scattered over the U. S. To keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons cannot? What...
...exempt. Among liberals, this exemption, in effect a subsidy, is an abhorrent reminder of oldtime domination of the State by the Church. Nevertheless, the movement toward taxing churches has made little headway. In fact, the trend ran in the other direction last Nov. 3, when the voters of Colorado amended the State Constitution to permit exemption, which State courts had denied. But last week liberals were well content with a modest gain registered in the Indiana General Assembly...
Best form was displayed in the light in the 135-pound division when Edwin C. Ihrig 3L, former Princeton star, threw John L. Angel 1G, one-time ace of the University of Colorado team, to enter the lists against Arthur W. Page '40, undefeated Yardling grappler. Preliminary to meeting Seymour J. Rubin 2L, who took the title in the 135-pound division last year, William T. Hull '40 defeated William H. Fain '39 in a seesaw extra period encounter...
...Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News's Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott, now his boss as editor-in-chief. Old acquaintance of the News's Publisher Edward W. Scudder, greying, cultivated Henry Suydam is 45, goes in for etchings and the piano...
...Rocky Mountain Conference, also divided into two sections, last week's biggest games were Colorado, Eastern division leader all season, v. Colorado College. By winning twice, 39-to-31, 35-to-32, Colorado got a chance to clinch the division title against Denver this week. Western division winner is sure to be either Utah or Utah State which also play each other this week, in Salt Lake City...