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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Read TIME from cover to cover, omitting this column. Return to this column, quiz yourself. He, who correctly answers or more of the questions does well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...blame falls somewhere between the lips of Cinemactress Greta Garbo and the ears of TIME'S Cinema reporter, who thought he heard her say "Voltaire" when she said "Moliere" (born 1622, died 1673).-ED. Quiz Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Read TIME from cover to cover, omitting this column. Return to this column, quiz yourself. He who correctly answers 15 or more of the questions does well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Roosevelt was not worried. When newshawks crowded into his press conference to quiz him on the budget he smiled. Hadn't he kept the Government's running expenses within its income? The deficit was chargeable solely to the cost of Recovery, said he, and he might have added that it was $500,000,000 less than the deficit on the same date last year. His budget message to Congress just one week off, he declared he had not yet prepared his recommendations, was waiting for last minute estimates on public works. As to the future, the President would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Bookkeepers' Surplus | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

These drab stories bring us quite naturally to the Philosophy Department. It seems that one day not long ago, a student entered a section in Philosophy 1a, totally and blindly unprepared, and found himself faced with a quiz. The question demanded an account of parallelism and interactionalism. These words the student had never seen. But he knew something of the ways of the thinkers. He constructed an elaborate and circumstantial grouping of ambiguities, with frequent mention of the two words in the question. Then he handed in his paper, and walked away, somewhat down in the mouth. When the paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/4/1933 | See Source »

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