Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson of Huntington broke the world's interscholastic indoor high jump record with a jump of 5 feet 11 3-8 inches. The former record was held by John, DeWitt of the Clinton High School of New Jersey with a height of 5 feet 11 inches...
With reference to the stories themselves. Professor Palmer showed how the "Iliad", with a duration of only a few days, reaches a great height of splendor, while the Odyssey has an even beauty, which is lacking in the "Iliad", as well as great artistic skill. "The ability to produce joy", he said, "seems to be at its height in these poems. It is not the source of the various incidents, but the way in which they are welded together that is the sign of the artist...
...several years in the measurement of intelligence and the testing of school accomplishment. Each child is given intelligence tests (group and individual); has his school accomplishment measured by means of standardized tests in reading and arithmetic; and has his teacher's judgments and observations of the above recorded. His height, weight, and bodily proportions are also measured; his physical condition is observed; his teeth are examined to see how the process of dentition is coming along; and the ossification of the carpal bones is shown by X-ray photographs...
Already since the first of October more than 1600 public school children in the first and second grades have been tested with the group intelligence tests, and X-ray photographs have been made of the carpal bones of these same children. The tests of school accomplishment, the measurements of height and weight, bodily proportions, and dentition have been made on 1200 of the same group A, second group intelligence test, to cheek the results of the first, has been applied to about 1200, and individual tests are being given in special cases as a further cheek. It is planned...
Anyone who has had any time to spend at a railroad station has found himself sooner or later on the penny scales comparing his weight and height at sixteen or twelve with the standard given. When the comparison does not turn out to his satisfaction he decides that the average given cannot be accurate, and in the past his conclusion has been correct. It is with the aim of determining these standards more exactly that the Graduate School of Education has undertaken in Dean Holmes' words a "research enterprise of major importance...