Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole program of study in the preparatory school is arranged with the goal of College Board Examinations in view. The blighting influence of this goal atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements. When the competence of a teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises...
...taxes next year; President Rudolf Hecht of the American Bankers' Association (see p. 53) who spoke enthusiastically of "co-operation between Government and business," said: "I told the President I didn't think it would be long before he had a touchdown and kicked the goal to recovery...
...Detroit dynamic President Roy Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co. had helped to raise $1,730,000. three-quarters of a million short of the goal but around $100,000 over last year's total. Another great salesman, Adman Albert D. Lasker, was using his skill to lure $3,000,000 out of Chicago pockets. With the same thunderous eloquence with which he nominated Herbert Hoover for President in 1932, beetle-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott whipped Los Angeles on toward a precise $3,094,805. Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator...
...over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...
...game, Stanford was held scoreless through the first half, got its chance in the third quarter when End Keith Topping fell on the ball after a blocked punt at California's 24-yd. line. Stanford's Captain Robert Hamilton took the ball across. A field goal from the 15-yd. line early in the last quarter gave Stanford the points it needed to squeak through 9-to-7, when California staged a last-minute drive to a touchdown...