Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society offers this prize for the best essay by a student of Harvard University, or by any graduate of not more than three years standing, for the best essay written on a subject drawn from the life or work of Dante. Students and graduates of similar standing of any college or university in the United States are also eligible to enter...
...previous years, the examination will probably be divided into two parts; the first will consist of several essay questions in which the candidates will be asked to identify and give the significance of important events of the preceding year; the second will be made up of fact questions. Current events in the year from March 1, 1930, to the day of the contest will be tested...
...previous years, the examination will probably be divided into two parts: the first will consist of several essay questions in which the candidates will be asked to identify and give the significance of important events of the preceding year; while the second will be made up of a number of fact questions. Short essays on such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures...
...third group attempts to understand the potential educational worth of the examination and tries to discover how the entire curriculum in English can be systematically strengthened by intelligent use of intelligently constructed examinations--school tests and longer papers of the essay type--given at suitable intervals...
...method apparently is to make a highly nattering photograph of a lovely lady in an exotic attitude: lying on her back on the floor; peering from a bunch of balloons; reflected in a mirror. To this is added a not nearly so flattering drawing and a slightly malicious little essay. The motif of many of his photographs and all of his drawings is charmingly and stuffily Edwardian, the epoch which is presently amusing England's Bright Young People. Photographic effects which he loses by scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks...