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Word: ephor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classrooms across the U.S. one day in 1901, close to 1,000 high-school seniors sat down to write in their bluebooks the answers to such questions as: "What are the main lines of Macaulay's comparison of Milton with Dante? . . . Define archon, ephor, demagogue, dicastery, tyrant . . ." These were the first questions, and the boys & girls were the first guinea pigs of a new testing institution: the College Entrance Examination Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cure for Chaos | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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