Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only does the measure guard the sanctity of state boundaries, but it protects such local customs as segregated education (in the South), and state aid to parochial schools (wherever it exists). Any attempt to question the merit of these two traditions would, of course, cause a conflagration in Congress and probably kill the present bill forthwith. That is definitely not the object of supporters of federal aid to education. They rightly figure that if compromise will get some money into the public school system, then compromise is currently the ticket for them...
Morison, Merk, and Schlesinger handle American history with authority. The American history question on the departmental exam can be answered after taking Merk's History 61a, one of the most rewarding half-courses in the department. Blake's course on the Byzantine Empire of Bruck's on Roman Law is the answer to the ancient or medieval question on the exam...
...second question, he got 18 out of 20. "To my mind," the grader commented, "excellent!! If you had just dealt with another point or two you would have hit the jackpot...
...first of the three questions he got nine out of a possible 20, a score that gave him some species of D according to the curve on which the examination was graded. On the third question, he got four out of 20, which won him no free games...
...question consisted of quotations from two book reviews, both dealing with Margaret Mead's "Keep Your Powder Dry" and Geoffrey Gorer's. "The American People." Messner chose to write about "The American People" because "its title gave me some clue to what the book is about...