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Word: exam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will register from 9 to 12 o'clock this morning with the English A Anticipatory exam given for those eligible from 11 to 1 o'clock. The afternoon will be reserved for the usual placement tests, while in the evening the traditional welcome reception will be held in Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTY FRESHMEN TO REGISTER; 49 MIL SCI THREE MEN RETURN | 10/29/1943 | See Source »

This is the last week of disbursing afloat and nobody is sure whether to shout for joy or join the Army. Our final exam will be laid out on the table for us on Saturday morning, and right now we are trying to think of some way to get ahold of an advance copy. Theories as to its nature are broached by almost everyone out of their subconscious desires for something suitable to their amount of acquired knowledge. Some of us are thinking of getting Eddie Rickenbacker in to pray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...item of news for this week will be the publishing of the class standings based on the results of our first exam last Saturday. To some happy fellows will go the privilege of carefree evenings in the beer parlors of Harvard Square, but speaking for myself and several other of my acquaintance we will only achieve the slight satisfaction of knowing our relative worth in the disbursing world. Of course, we are nonchalant about the whole thing since the worst thing that could happen to us would be an invitation to join the Army as a private. And that...

Author: By A. E. Carpenter jr., | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SUPPLY CORPS) | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...treasury, at the rate of $500 a week, $42,629 which he had been found guilty of accepting as graft. But Curley, oozing martyrdom, turned both cases into political assets. Campaigning from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling how he perjured himself on the civil service exam in order to get a job for a destitute friend with a wife and four children. On the second occasion, he let Boston know that he was selling the family silver. Promptly John M. Sullivan, boss of Boston's Teamsters (A.F. of L.), announced that the union would arrange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Curley, the Famed Underdog | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

While the A team is away Worcester Polytech may send distance men down for a Charles River meeting with the Crimson B team, and it is possible that the second string Mikkola-men will also race on the 13th of November, when the post-exam schedule brings Tufts over to the Handicap Course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SCHEDULE LISTS DARTMOUTH, MIT, TUFTS | 9/24/1943 | See Source »

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