Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Educational Testing Service (a C.E.E.B. offshoot), objective tests still seem the only solution for college applicants. Writing in the current Atlantic, he argues that objective tests are more accurate. An essay may be written badly by a good student in a state of fluster, or graded in a dozen ways by as many readers. As a one-shot gauge of college eligibility, says Chauncey, the essay is unfair and undependable...
...problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told how it is being done...
...faint hopes today. Mullin ran a good 25:41 for five miles in taking sixth against Yale and Princeton last week, but he must do even better to figure in the Heps. The steady Perry finished eighth a week ago, and he will probably show up among the top dozen finishers again this afternoon...
...potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer summed him up: "Quick, pleasant, brilliant...
IMPORT CURBS on Japanese stainless-steel flatware were ordered by President Eisenhower to protect U.S. producers. Japanese now account for 90% of all imports. New restrictions are aimed at cutting flatware imports from Japan to 5,750,000 dozen pieces; duties of 60% to 67^½% will be imposed on all imports in excess of that total...