Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 70 measurements were taken of each person, while full length photographs were taken of 50,055 men and women. These were analyzed by Professor Hooton's staff in Cambridge...
...hour and fumbling through the stratified heap, maybe he found his needle. Then he briskly turned the pages and very likely discovered that the key to his success had mysteriously vanished. All that remained was the unravished pieces which pecked out from the binding in apology. Perhaps the person who tore the exam out did so in disgust at the outrageous demands of the course. But more probably, he couldn't spare ten minutes to recopy the questions...
...liquor but the things to drink it with, also hasn't felt any pinch. During the football season students, on pre-game Thursdays and Fridays, buy cheap, expendable glasses. Now the Coop claims that customers from all over the country are ordering generous-sized beer mugs engraved with the person's name and class...
...first part of each class consists of watching the movies, which present reading material from the pages of textbooks in the form of isolated word groups. The word groups flit across the person at a steadily increasing pace as the course progresses. After the film, students answer questions about the reading material they have just soon. In part two of the class they read passages from an ordinary book within a certain time limit and then again answer questions about what they have read. The third part of the course is devoted to teaching studying skills: skimming, anticipating, and notemaking...
...Stalingrad" is a novel of mood. Instead of a plot, there is only the overpowering atmosphere of snow and gray skies and beaten men--and death. Plievier indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that...