Word: oral
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...department to select accredited universities, but each student will have a definite purpose in going abroad and will have certain requirements to meet on return. The Council committee has already outlined tentative suggestions for testing the student: written exams administered here or at the foreign university, papers written here, oral exams taken here, or any other combination suitable to the particular department...
Graduation Ceremony. In Detroit, Mrs. Lillian Morrison got a divorce from husband Everett after charging that he spent all his time reading the dictionary while she worked, greeted her return from the office every day by forcing her to learn ten new words and answer an oral quiz on them...
...Oral examinations given when the student returns...
...prison he learned to write, and in 1948 sent a letter to famed Attorney Giacomo Augenti, pleading with him to take up his case. It took Lawyer Augenti five years of briefs, depositions and oral arguments to overcome the reluctance of Italian judges to upset the verdicts of their colleagues. Last February a new trial was ordered. Carlo, now 46, grey, and suffering from tuberculosis, was brought from jail. Squinting in the bright sunlight, he marveled to see that Vesuvius no longer wore the pennant of smoke he had known until his imprisonment; nobody had told him it stopped smoking...
...John Foster Dulles' . . . oral support of Naguib-aided and abetted by Eisenhower's token Colt pistol-in driving out the enemy (British) from the Suez Canal Zone is an indication of the new Republican foreign policy in the Middle East, may I suggest that it appears a little shortsighted. If, with America's approving eye, Naguib with his Nazi-advised army manages to dislodge the British from the Canal Zone, who then defends this vital international gunpowder heap in the future? With the British gone, only two powers are capable of the rough and tumble...