Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
With mid-year examinations less than three weeks away and with the time at hand when the heads of the various departments should be preparing questions, one might stop and wonder how an examination is created, and what is more to the student's interest, how it is corrected. Any haphazard method of organizing the little white sheet that is to test the interpretation of knowledge gained and assimilated over the period of four months is as much to be lamented as a similar method of estimating the worth of that interpretation. Although it is quite easy...
...next turn at bat Congress, instead of playing Casey, ought to hit a home run that will correct the fallacies of the Administration, reassure business, and help to end the recession. Business and labor, too, should use their heads and not their hearts and give dispassionate thought to the economic problems confronting the United States at the beginning...
...Alcatraz Island," the second feature, we have an absorbing social problem not hitherto brought to the attention of the public. It paints the difficulties of a racketeer (John Lithel) in bringing up his daughter (Mary Maguire) on the correct intellectual and cultural level. He finally sends her to Europe with his mistress, and she returns in time to fall in love with the District Attorney and free her father from "the Rock." This picture is not guaranteed...
That tests, like men, are fallible Dr. Thorndike readily admits, but they are better than guesses. His colleagues have often questioned his evidence but rarely with any success his conclusions. When Thorndike declared that "satisfiers'' (such as a reward of food) made animals remember the correct acts and thus aided their learning, and that "annoyers" retarded their learning, his contemporaries were skeptical. But many years later Thorndike confirmed his theory of the effect of rewards on learning with what he regards as his most remarkable and conclusive experiment. This was the "spread and scatter" phenomenon. Students who answered...