Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall become impatient and irritated with our allies; and God knows they will be tried and provoked with us. ... Penitent, pardoned, and therefore truly humble Americans-can we fancy it?-may under God be used to discover and help establish wise international arrangements...
From the scores of these tests, the University will establish a Harvard norm to be used as a basis in determining how the tests can be used for admitting returning veterans. The examinations are of the machine-scored, multiple-choice type. They are not easy tests, but they have been designed for the man whose formal education has been interrupted, and hence require ability and aptitude rather than factual knowledge...
...would have no silk ; you cannot tell when it is clean." Boswell asked if he might have a job in this strange establish ment. "Yes, sir," roared the doctor. "Properly dressed you would, make a splendid eunuch." Often he took whatever side of an argument promised the most fireworks. When fashionable friends philosophized on the virtues of poverty, Johnson flew into a Tory rage. When someone suggested that poor criminals were better off in not having to suffer the ignominy of public executions, he flared up on the other side: "No, sir, executions are intended to draw spectators...
...endorses the U.S.A.F.I. test plan which Dean Hanford has proposed to the student body. All students enrolled in the College have been asked to take a series of tests which will be given to servicemen as they are mustered out. The scores on these examinations will be used to establish a norm for veterans who are candidates for admission to Harvard. The times have already been set, and the locations will be announced later in the SERVICE NEWS...
Dean Hanford yesterday asked all students now enrolled at the College to reserve ten hours during the week beginning November 27 for a "patriotic service" to returning veterans. Students will be asked to take a series of five two-hour tests, which will establish Harvard's norm for judging the scores that voterans earn on taking the same tests as they leave the service...