Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bureau also told how its own methods of measuring literacy had changed. From 1870 to 1930, census takers simply asked whether a person could read & write. Too many illiterates, the bureau felt, were not admitting it. So, in 1940, the bureau asked people only how many years of school they had finished. (If you had completed five, you were "literate"; if not, you weren...
...report (based on a sampling of 25,000 households), interviewers combined both questions. A literate person is still anybody who has completed the fifth grade-a definition that will make many sixth-grade teachers and some college professors wince. But an illiterate is now a person who i) has not finished five years of school, and 2) says that he cannot read & write...
Drugs like aspirin raise the "pain threshold"-i.e., the point where sensations, often pleasant ones, ring the alarm of pain. An affectionate pat becomes a painful slap, for instance, if the patter pats hard enough. A person who has been
NORTH CAROLINA: Registration is permanent and must be made IN PERSON. Application for an absentee ballot may be made not more than 30 nor less than 2 days before the election. Address them to the Chairman of the County Board of Elections of the county of residence. Votes must be notarized and returned to the County Board on or before election...
OHIO: Registration for the election must be made IN PERSON. Previously registered voters may obtain absentee ballots by writing to the clerk of the County Board of Elections within 30 days of the election. Ballots must be notarized and returned before the polls close...