Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score (you see, I keep up with the Current Events Test) on the June 20 test was 102 correct. One miss was in National Affairs, two in Foreign News. This compares with my former scores...
...tennis addicts this was a women's Wimbledon. Every day capacity crowds filled the old green stands, anxious not to miss the dramatic defeat of Mrs. Moody, which they feared or hoped might happen any day. To British galleries the 31-year-old Californian had demonstrated that she was still good enough to win and also shaky enough to be beaten-which she twice was, in pre-Wimbledon warmup tournaments. Her opponent in the semi-finals was Hilda Sperling, the same Hilda Sperling who had trounced her two weeks before in the London championships. But when the semi-finals...
...Angeles Superior Court. Sandra Martin, ex-secretary of pert, pouty Cinemactress Simone Simon, pleaded guilty to forging Miss Simon's name to three checks, cashing them. Chief result of Miss Martin's plea: disappointment in Hollywood, whose curious citizenry had hoped Miss Martin would give in court the name of Miss Simon's male friend to whom she had presented, last Christmas, gold keys to her house. Snapped Pleader Martin: "You'll never know who got them...
...pioneer in workers' education in the U. S., which is scarcely a generation old, Bryn Mawr's summer school was started in 1921 by Bryn Mawr's brilliant late president, Miss M. Carey Thomas. Since then similar schools have been opened at University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, in Berkeley, Calif, and in Chicago. They are now associated with the Affiliated Schools for Workers. Bryn Mawr supplies buildings and helps plan the summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships...
Directors of the school are Misses Marguerite Gilmore and Jean Carter. Stocky, blue-eyed Miss Gilmore, besides directing workers' education for the State of Illinois, has worked in factory towns herself. On the staff is a labor representative to interpret the students' questions to the faculty, explain the answers. This year the school will deal especially with the Wagner Act, Social Security, and what they mean to workers...