Word: orals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially on his craft. During the oral examinations he learned that the more delays he could introduce the fewer would be the questions. Consequently he stalled, hedged, purposely irritated the examiners to direct their questions to subjects on which he was well-informed. Thereafter his progress was rapid...
...medical school puts similar emphasis on the mouth, and its contents, he may call himself a stomatologist (mouth expert), as does Dentist Miner when he teaches at Boston University School of Medicine. When he teaches at Harvard University's Dental School, Stomatologist Miner becomes Professor of Clinical Oral Surgery...
...following, the A. D. A. decided last week, are authentic dental specialties: exodontia, oral surgery, periodontia (tissues surrounding teeth), orthodontia (straight teeth), prosthodontia (false teeth), pedodontia (children's teeth). To promote those specialties a vast array of national dental societies met in San Francisco last week or warmed up there the week before: American Dental Association, American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, American Academy of Periodontology, American Association of Dental Editors, American College of Dentists, American Society of Oral Surgeons & Exodontists, Association of American Women Dentists, Association of Military Dental Surgeons of the U. S., National Association of Dental Examiners...
...brand-new tax bill, concocted in conference, a cross between the House and Senate bills. Day after its birth the hybrid bill was rushed to the House floor. No copies of the conference report had been printed. All that Representatives knew of it was what oral explanations their leaders gave. So weary were they, however, that they laughed, applauded, made speeches showing that they really did not know what they were voting on, then passed it, 221-to-98. More deliberate was the Senate : 3½ hours were devoted to debate. Senator Byrd of Virginia and other opponents...
...upon the demonstration of fitness through performance. The standards in the subjects to be taught--Classics, English, Fine Arts, French, Germans, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences--are in general those of the Divisional Examinations in these fields. In addition, certain skills are tested separately, e.g., oral command of French or German for the teacher of either of these languages. In certain subjects graduate courses are specifically required. The standards in Education are: first, a general examination in Educational Theory; second, an apprenticeship in teaching; third, a special examination on the curriculum and methods in the subject...