Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposed it and 30 were undecided. The same poll showed 29 state governors for, 7 against, and 12 undecided. Senatorial supporters include William F. Knowland (R-Cal), Wayne Morse (Ind-Oregon), Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn), Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) and Francis Case (R.S.D.). The political views of those particular gentlemen are frequently in conflict...
This cross-sectioning is very important since a question written for an aptitude test by a MIT math professor might give un unfair advantage to Eastern pre-engineering students. The committee tries to eliminate all items which might prove of particular advantage to one group...
...tests have been marked each question is studied on a special item analysis chart. A question of average difficulty is expected to be answered correctly by 60 percent of those trying to pick one of the five possible answers usually provided in ETS tests. If more people choose a particular wrong answer that the right one, the question is eliminated. This occasionally happens because of ambiguity on the part of the test-maker. An example of this is the following question included in a recent aptitude test...
...Israelis I say that you should come to truly look upon yourselves as a Middle Eastern state, and see your own future in that context rather than as a headquarters-or nucleus so to speak-of worldwide groupings of peoples of a particular religious faith who must have special rights within and obligations to the Israeli state. You should drop the attitude of the conqueror and the conviction that force and a policy of retaliatory killings is the only policy that your neighbors will understand. You should make your deeds correspond to your frequent utterance of the desire for peace...
...almost always locked, unused buildings set down at some of the busiest and most valuable corners of the world's life while quick and fascinating currents of thought and life surged around and past them . . . islands of slumbering inactivity amidst the urgent flow of public affairs . . . Second, two particular churches where [I] sat on under dull, mournful, interminable preaching by two elderly gentlemen in funereal black robes-undoubtedly sincere but . . . rather futile . . . The peripheral lethargy if not laziness of the church, the ineptitude if not stupidity of the ministry-irrevelance and futility-these are the two most ineffaceable deposits...