Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least it seemed so last Thursday, the opening day for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. As an opener with all the trimmings, the pre-game ceremonies began with a flashy band that marched smartly around the outfield for a while, rayon pants glinting in the sun and chin straps fixed fiercely under chins. Then at a signal, the band marched into seats on the grandstand and governor Christian A. Herter threw out the first ball, at least according to the announcer. No one, I believe, actually saw the Governor in all the crowd. The ball just popped...
...form was them pre-tested and answered correctly by 40 percent of those taking the test. Since those giving the right answer far outnumbered those giving any other, the item was placed on a regular ETS exam...
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...
Unfair questions, which manage to slip by the board of experts, are usually spotted in the experimental pre-test, which every question must pass before it is to be included as a bona fide question on an ETS test. Experimental items are often included in the regular college board exams, where the student does not know that the question will not count towards his scores...
...routine as it is, Beachhead is fairly exciting stuff. Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy are sent ashore on a Japanese-held island to risk their leathernecks in a pre-invasion reconnaissance. Then soldiering gives way to smooching when Tony finds Mary Murphy, the daughter of a French planter, in her jungle hideaway. The enemy, however, keeps the lovebirds, as well as the action, on the wing through the full-colored, gorgeous jungle on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, where Beachhead was filmed...