Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries...
Dutchess County farmers, watching from the plateau on the East side of the river, saw Navy jump off to a quick start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
...charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Scientist Albert Einstein remarked that he wanted it to escape curiosity seekers who "peer into my windows at Princeton...
...numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet...
...Mark Sullivan LL.D...