Word: orals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defendant Peacher testified that he had an oral contract with the county to work prisoners on his place. A county judge had once expressed the opinion that "it would be all right" when he proposed the practice. "I arrested those Negroes because they were loafing around town. . . . They were loafers and a honky-tonk bunch," he declared...
Beginning modestly with a simple dance number from The Big Broadcast, the Orchestra got warmer on Berry's syncopated satire of William Tell, warmer still when Jack Teagarden rose and blared trickily on his trombone. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor, hired as oral annotator of the program, proposed that the jazz concert be considered "a vacation from culture," warned: "You have heard scandalous things but worse are coming...
...bent more thoroughly than he can at the present time, and allow his imagination freer play in criticism, poetry, journalism, or wherever his interest lies. In addition, several weeks might be devoted to speech-making upon any topic the student elected, for organization of ideas are similar in both oral and written expression...
Yale's general examinations will differ in detail and application from Harvard's, however. There will be no oral exams, no special exams within a general field...
...examination is usually attended by special examinations more limited in scope and is sometimes preceded by a preliminary examination (general but not necessarily comprehensive) at the end of Junior year. When the result of the written honors examination is in doubt, it may be followed and supplemented by an oral examination...