Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windows when the lever is moved. At the same time, a strip of paper comes into reach on which the student writes his answer. When he presses the lever again, the answer slides under a piece of glass so that it is visible but cannot be changed while the correct answer appears in another window. If the student's answer is correct, he moves the lever which marks the paper as correct and adjusts the machine so that the sentence appears once more. During a session with the machine, the student must answer each question correctly twice...
Like just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...operated by the student. When a lever is pushed, a sentence in English to be translated appears. The student writes his own translation on a strip of paper which slides under a piece of glass, so that the student can see, but not change his answer. Then, the correct translation appears...
...student has correctly translated the sentence, he pushes a lever which marks the paper as correct and adjusts the machine so that that sentence will only appear once more. During a session with the machine, the student must translate each sentence twice. The machine, Skinner claims, is relatively cheat-proof because a teacher can check the answers on the paper with the mark the machine has registered. There would also be a phonograph for dictation drill...
Only a very brave or very foolish man would attempt, as this is written, to prophesy the outcome of the 1956 election. But if I am correct in assuming that we are drawing towards the end of a political cycle, there are certain aspects of the approaching campaign which can be forecast with some confidence...