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...quit with a cash prize after any number of correct answers less than seven). Seven correct answers in a row nets the maximum $64. All that Baker has to do is ask the questions - prepared by a Smith College girl who was the only one in her class to flunk meteorology-and make everyone feel good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $64 Question | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...flunk" the other...

Author: By Lt. NORMAN S. gilbert, | Title: ASOTELLITES | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Phelps | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By George M. Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure for Color Blindness | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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