Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...movie courses for every class from kindergarten through high school. It will offer a three-part package: a one-reel short for $25, summing up the course, a "strip film" of pictures and diagrams tied to a popular textbook in the field, and a what-to-do-about-it manual for the teacher. Young America hopes to put out 100 basic films and eight documentaries...
Arch Aiken to be known as "Mistaken Aiken"--suggested by local Bolsheviki, well known to Arch after their many verbal encounters. (Despite press notices to the contrary Arch reported a quiet weekend on Manhattan last week; and he went mainly because "the train affords plenty of time for the Manual and Memo...
Dave Downing is said to have enjoyed himself at the circus last Saturday night and has even better prospects in view for the future. We point with pride to our prediction of last week that the thrush of Company 3, Jim Davison, would come closer to the Manual and Memo; his recitation on S & A 15 this week startled the whole class including our rather incredulous pedagogue...
...Thirty-one men have served 32 tenures as President of the U.S. Whether Harry Truman is the 32nd or 33rd President is, in the absence of any final authority, up to Mr. Truman. He has decided that he is the 32nd President of the U.S. The Congressional Directory, Senate Manual, and the numbered nameplates on the Presidential portraits in the White House concur with...