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Word: mostly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> (From a test to rate an individual's attitude toward any institution) Q.: "This institution 1) is the most beloved of institutions, 2) is necessary to the very existence of civilization, 3) gives real help in meeting moral problems, 4) will destroy civilization if it is not radically changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Professor Buros' harrowing adventures began even before he had got his book to press. Most tests are marketed by commercial publishers, yield handsome profits to publishers and authors. When they had seen pre-publication copies of his book, some publishers began to appeal to Mr. Buros "in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

To most radio listeners, however, a third man in Box 44 is synonymous with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

He is undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Most outstanding among the handful of U. S. doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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