Word: oral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...S.P.I.A. selects fifty applicants a year from the sophomore class on the basis of oral and written exams and previous academic records. The student then chooses some social science field of study that usually crosses ordinary departmental lines...
...what he might say to pacify Pinay, who, after all, was going to get barely more than half a billion dollars. Usually diplomats memorize such aids to conversation, or if they quote from them, are careful not to hand over the texts to their hosts. Gist of this oral message, prepared in Washington: if France spends her $525 million wisely on NATO defense, and if her own arms budget is big enough, she may reasonably expect more...
...respectability, gave its lead position and a 12½-page spread to the preliminary findings of Dr. Benjamin F. Sieve, a Boston physician, on what he calls "a new antifertility factor." On its face, the report looked promising indeed, but scientists who have spent many years looking for an oral contraceptive were far from satisfied...
Last week in Buffalo, Federal Judge John Knight ruled that the Italian government had no legal grounds for asking LoDolce's extradition. The crime, he said, was "so gruesome as to be almost unbelievable if [it] were not supported by the written and oral confessions" of LoDolce and others. But the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Italy could not apply, because 1) Italy and the U.S. were at war when the crime was committed, and 2) the area where it occurred was then in control of the Germans, not the Italians...
...That the children of this generation have failed to learn such skills as reading, oral and written expression, and computation as well as did their parents...