Word: flunks
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...Dictator Mustafa Kemal's boundless disgust last week, he proved to have been right in his hunch that most Istanbul high-school students would flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
...Daily" doubts the statements that students, once they leave the lower division, will forsake books for society. The students realize that they can't afford to. From now on, the basis of grades will be merit, according to the administration, and not the fact that a flunk will mean disqualification. Those days are passed...
Wednesday's Child (by Leopold Atlas; H. C. Potter and George Haight, producers) is a heartfelt, heavily underscored polemic on the sufferings of a sensitive child whose parents flunk in matrimony.* Most effective of its nine scenes is the second, in which Bobby Phillips (Frank M. Thomas Jr.) and his playmates assemble in a debris-littered vacant lot to build a fortress. The precise meaning of the word bastard is the subject of academic discussion which turns personal when Bobby is truculently catechized as to whether his father is the salesman who occasionally comes home to his mother...
...sacrifice all for science. Although they do an amount of work which would be considered satisfactory in most other fields, in Chemistry or Biology they miss about half the course, and are obliged to make a desperate rush at the end of the term in order to escape a flunk...
...thorough investigation of how to pass these things. First, he slithered up the steps of the Widow to see how matters went along there. Prying with praiseworthy dispatch, albeit with unnecessary quietude, into the files he found that the amiable Old Lady was never had one of her devotees flunk. Encouraging news, to put it mildly...