Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most spectacular performance last week occurred on the American Stock Exchange. After officers of Syntex, a supplier of basic material for oral contraceptive pills, reported that third-quarter earnings had more than trebled (to $5,900,000), the stock soared 22¾ points to 175¾-the biggest single-day advance in the recorded history of the American Exchange...
Richard M. Hunt, head tutor in Social Studies, conceded that "the generals may be changed," though he said the basic format of oral and written exams will remain the same. "The Committee on Social Studies is open-minded and will lend a favorable car to any reasonable proposal," he said...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
Last week the argument reached the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles. For five hours, before 200 fascinated spectators and the court's seven justices, nine lawyers presented oral arguments in seven consolidated test cases concerned with one overriding question: Does Section 26 violate the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment-a clause that has been held to bar only private discrimination that is clearly involved with "state action...
...oneself to a physician and watching how he did things. The best medical schools, Harvard included, simply corporated this system into a loose academic homework, supplementing it with some formal instruction. Apparently, this instruction was at very thorough; it ran four months of the year, and the final examinations (oral) were would to have been scandalously easy. Faculty members collected their salaries directly from students, who had to buy tickets for each course they took...