Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A photograph of four men in what was apparently an office anteroom was handed each candidate (see cut). He was allowed to look at it for five minutes, given 30 minutes to answer 25 questions about what he had seen. Samples from the "horse sense" test:
To hatch all this out of the innocuous King's Speech, the technical maneuver was employed of having that cherub-faced Tory fire-eater Mr. Winston (''Winnie") Churchill propose an amendment in language which in fact was a polemic. Clarioned "Winnie" Churchill: "The great new fact that...
William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat...
Good shots in The Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong...
Of course the personal element of the old system, with its corresponding uncertainty, will be missed at first, but there are other considerations to make it forgotten. The dial telephone is one of the most versatile machines ever devised. It's much more fun to play with while awaiting a...