Word: fore
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Twas the week 'fore Thanksgiving
...brave talk. But the real test of France's influence is that its neighbors are vehemently opposed to the force de dissuasion and resent French attempts to weaken the Atlantic Alliance. Be fore the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week, Michel Habib-Deloncle, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, urged support for an independent European deterrent, based on France's nuclear force, and even invited British participation. Said he: "If Great Britain conceives its future to be in the European Community, she can find in this field the occasion for a positive contribution...
...then further seances with Leschetizky, Paderewski, Busoni, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel. Guided by electric impulses from a collection of unique piano rolls, Vorsetzer's sensitive fingers produced all the notes with ghostly perfection, just as the turn-of-the-century masters had played them 50 years be fore. But this time, tape recorders took in every appoggiatura so that the antique treasures could be preserved in high-quality stereo recordings...
Last week two justices - Goldberg for the liberals and Harlan for the conservatives - spoke at the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Chicago and articulated, as rarely be fore, the difference between the two viewpoints...
...comprehensible. In The Concepts of Over-and Under achievement, Psychologist Robert L. Thorndike, also of Teachers College, writes: "In the study of discrepancies between actual and predicted achievement, we are dealing with a set of discrepancies between actual final achievement and the level of achievement that would have been fore cast on the basis of the known relation ship between final achievement and some measure of aptitude or of initial achievement, or some combination of measures of both." Whew. Actually, the point is that "scientific" testmakers can not yet measure the human variables that affect academic success in school...