Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Record Exam...
...gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering stolen food for his emaciated comrades' wristwatches. Standard Nazis, snarling or whining as occasion demands, fill out the cast on the long road to another prison camp and, finally, to Allied victory. Maybe I'm Dead lacks the dramatic pinnacles of truly stirring...
...wake of criticism over the high (27%) rate of failures locally on the state regents history exam-one of the tests that usually determine whether a high-school senior will get an academic diploma -some New York City school officials were reportedly considering a move to disregard the traditional exam entirely, apparently on the theory that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these...
...morning. Crew may obtain a chart of the West Indies by calling at Widener 417." To the crew concerned, the meaning of the notice was abundantly clear. It was simply Samuel Eliot Morison's salty way of telling his students the time and place of their midyear exam...
There was nothing to indicate at the time that Exeter would hand the freshman their first hockey defeat in four years, 2 to 1, early in February; perhaps it was the usual jinx, the exam time layoff. Yale had a good freshman team that year, a team that stopped 1930 at every turn and triumphed, 2-0. The "acrobatic" goal-tending of F. K. Trask was one of the few bright spots. The Eli freshman basketball team was equally as strong, and it trounced 1930 by an impressive 46-24 score...