Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...
Final eye movement records of the experimental group showed a fundamental change in reading habits, and also in reading attitude, it was reported last year. The students began for the first time to exercise control over the eye movements in reading. How permanent these changes will prove to be will quite certainly depend on the intentions of the learners and will, of course, vary with the individuals, it was said...
...first comes the barbed wire; then huge anti-tank teeth and a "carpet" of mines; then the self-sufficient machine-gun and anti-tank gun emplacements, some firing by remote control. Saar-brikken lies within this defensive zone, six to 18 miles deep packed with hidden anti-aircraft gun pits. Then come the bunkers and major fortifications. The average over-all depth of the Siegfried Position is 30 miles and it embraces 22,000 separate fortified positions (see cuts...
...chorus of boos from press and Parliament for bungling its job (TIME, Sept. 18), fortnight ago the British Ministry of Information reorganized, found a new Director General to replace Lord Perth, who became Advisor on Foreign Publicity. But newsmen still refer to British press censorship as "Perth Control...
Last week a prime example of Perth Control got by the British censors. A correspondent reported that he had spent ten shillings in taxi fares tracking down the famed pamphlets scattered by the Royal Air Force back of the German lines. He found them finally in the Division of Enemy Propaganda. When he asked for a copy, a pompous official said: "Impossible." Reason: "such intelligence might reach enemy hands...