Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when you probe the facts, it turns out that there really isn't any percentage for the drinker either...
Second, giving of examinations that "probe for knowledge, not . . . pry for lack of it." The report commends GE instructors who announce a list of key problems to be thought over before the examination. Although this method would not work in all fields, some courses could make use of it as soon as this June as a first step toward a more constructive system of studying and grading...
...Examinations: "The examinations should be less of a bear trap . . . This approach should be positive, not negative. Its purpose should be to probe for knowledge, not to pry for lack...
Trim Mrs. Ida Saks said that the state police must be called in to probe the "foul situation." If the "city government does not clean up ... the women can and will, with God's help." A righteous cheer rose...
...Senator said that McDowell, who had taken office three months previously, was not going to be another cringing Commissioner. McDowell had responded to LoPresti's pressure by sending Deputy Commissioner Dwyer out right away to "probe all phases of this crime," as LoPresti put it. McDowell also opposed Dr. Van Waters' methodology, LoPresti claimed, and the new Commissioner's LoPresti claimed, and the new Commissioner's record indicated that he had been trained in more traditional ways of running reformatories...