Word: orally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only honors candidates may compete. Applicants with the best speeches will vie in an oral trial early in April, and the final winners will then receive intensive grooming for their functions in the June 10 graduation...
...only thorough-going solution seems to be the general examination, but here again we have the cramming, frantic last minute marshalling of seattered, half-forgotten facts, and a few hours of furious exam writing. The oral exam would seem to obviate this, but, having given a man sixteen courses in four years, it is a little hard to admit that you haven't really taught him very much, and, consequently, the oral examiners have to set their sights fairly low if they don't intend to flunk out a large number of students...
Canada was desperately hoping that the Hyde Park Agreement could be kept alive. The oral pact made in 1941 between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King had treated Canada like a 49th state in sharing scarce commodities-especially oil and steel. Last week, in a speech in New York City, Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S., made a bold bid for perpetual preference...
...used his eyes for a camera in "Lady in the Lake," and started a new screen fad. In his latest work, he shifts emphasis to his mouth. The chance of a new craze developing is doubtful; but there are enough close-ups of gum-chewing, envelope-licking and other oral shennanigans to fascinate any dentist. The average fan may not be as overwhelmed, but by close observation he may discover whether Montgomery has his tongue in his cheek. The quality of his performance makes it seem likely...
Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...