Word: purport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading fad in U. S. schools and colleges today are the so-called "standardized" tests. There are more than 4,000 of them. They purport to measure an individual's intelligence, knowledge, character, personality, radicalism, musical tastes, artistic ability, tea-table form, inhibitions, morale. Last week one Oscar Krisen Buros, an associate professor of education at Rutgers University, emerged from a voyage of exploration in this jungle of tests. Harrowing was his tale...
...striking feature of the last year or so has been the rapidly increased circulation of broadsheets and newsletters, privately owned, which purport to give their subscribers a mixture of 'inside information' and well-informed comment...
...Launching his campaign for reelection, California's 74-year-old Senator William Gibbs McAdoo produced a two-months-old letter beginning "Dear Mac." signed by Franklin Roosevelt. Its purport: "I earnestly hope that you will run again...
...interest is only in Cambridge," said Foley when questioned as to the universal purport of what he said. He showed figures proving that one third of the city property was tax exempt and 75 per cent of this was Harvard's. "If all of this property were taxable," said he, "the city tax rate would be down 15 dollars...
...purport of Professor Chafee's article really amounts to no more than that I am responsible for my actions as Governor...