Word: constructors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from ace to dunce. The test factory writes a biography of each "item" on a card and studies it. If the best students have picked the right answer and the worst ones muffed it, the "item" is ready for use. But if too many good students tripped, the test constructor knows that the wrong choices he offered were not "fair distractors," and he words the problem over again...
Died. Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, 60, top-ranking Japanese naval constructor, early experimenter with blitz warfare against civilians; of an acute pancreas ailment; in Tokyo...