Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Avenue house, with its Irish setters, cats and parrots, was always open to New Havenites. They came to talk and borrow the books he recommended. For years his T. & B. course (Tennyson & Browning) met in four sections of 150 students each-including athletes who knew Phelps would not readily flunk a contributor to Yale's glory...
...that's why all the stuff about the Army Specialist has been confined to the psychology boys, whom we all suspect of training for the Sorokin Abstinence Test (and secretly planning to flunk in an orgasm of orgiastic depravity...
Stocky Dr. Henry Cadan of Brooklyn said last week that in many cases he could do a lot about color blindness. The Air Forces and the Navy do not want colorblind men, weed them out with color cards composed of varicolored dot patterns. Those who flunk color tests and go to doctors get various kinds of handling: some doctors give no treatment at all ("color blindness is not curable"); others try everything but the kitchen sink. At the Optometric Extension Foundation, Duncan, Okla., 25% of the young colorblind men who took vitamin A and practiced looking at lights through...
...less than 1% a month), fires less than 2% of all the men it hires, and has had no serious labor disputes. Dr. Humm's most spectacular single achievement was his test of 60 trainees in a United Airlines school. He predicted that seven of the 60 would flunk the course-and named the seven. Sure enough, they flunked...