Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming as they do, late in October and March, the Hour Examinations have interfered just at a time when both the instructor and student have settled down, and wish to forge ahead in the work, and not to be held back by reviewing for a glorified quiz. The requirement that definite marks be turned in at these times to the Dean's office has only served in the past to annoy the professor, frighten the Freshman, and insult the Senior. By abolishing, moreover, this purely technical requirement, the instructor will be afforded far more freedom in running his course...
...dealings disclosed. But a passage in Michael Wolohowicz's testimony made news. All he knew about his job as treasurer was that he signed checks, carried money to and from the bank. He could neither read nor write-or, at least, very little. Said he, at the quiz: "I have to talk slow. I not been to school...
...When Counsel Pecora called Junior Partner Thomas Stillwell Lament to the stand and began to quiz him on personal year-end stock sales, presumably for tax deduction purposes, Lawyer Davis came to his feet in protest, forced the question of personal stock transactions into executive session...
...literally the only course in the entire field in which the laboratory instructors are of very little assistance. They are, apparently, too anxious to return to their research to waste much time with students; some of them have an attitude which causes the demonstrations to resemble a grammar school quiz, and which occasionally bids fair to turn the laboratory into a battle field...
...gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...