Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President," said Chief Justice Fred Vinson, "will you raise your right hand?" Harry Truman's right hand went up, his left stretched out to rest on two Bibles: a White House copy, opened at the Sermon on the Mount, and a copy of the Gutenberg edition, opened at the Ten Commandments...
...Missouri reception, Truman introduced some thing new in presidential handshaking. He wished, he said, that everyone could go home and say he's shaken the President's hand. So, he instructed, everyone "hold your hands up like this" -clasping his hands like a triumphant boxer. The folks liked it fine...
...also have to make sure the machine is working properly," she went on, "so we rescore several papers from each batch by hand." Each set of tests is also run through the machine twice to make sure that there have been no errors in correcting. Thus far, Dyer claimed, the correcting apparatus has never made a mistake that wasn't caught by the human scorers in his University Hall headquarters...
Often the marks are not sufficiently "heavy, glossy, and black" for the machine and secretaries in the testing office have to go over the marks by hand. "We check each paper anyway to make sure that it was marked correctly by the student and we erase all the answers to a question if we find more than one has been made," one of Dyer's assistants remarked...
...compromise the states desire to maintain local control of education and the federal government's reluctance to hand out funds without some control over their use, Sargent suggests a federal board of education, named by laymen, to serve as an advisory group to state education administrations...