Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional written paper or quiz will be required. For those who have had one half course in philosophy and who are interested in the study of moral ideas and values this is an excellent half course to complete the requirement for distribution...
Havoc reigned at Langdell Hall yesterday afternoon when the crafty students who had heard of the great migration to the banks of the Potomac began to quiz the powers that be as to those who were to deliver the real legal information. After much hunting about a few wringers were finally brought in who could give the courses in the required fashion, but left the poor struggling law students coming to drink the chalices of learning at the "world's greatest" rather against this new system of government which feels it necessary to take away the men who were hired...
...Maternal Health. In 1895, said he, he had quizzed 50 couples of high intelligence, found that one pair in five had consummated their marriage before the ceremony. In 1930 he had questioned 50 more couples, found the ratio grown to one in three. This year he had repeated his quiz once more. Every other couple, he learned, were as good as married. Conference air grew tense as slim, spry Dr. Dickinson declared: "The doctors are too timid to face the situation. These couples are not promiscuous. Only three had gone beyond the one man-one woman relationship. They...
...millions out of the hundreds of millions he made from the World War) for hospitalization of the war wounded. But probably Eugene Schneider and Francois de Wendel are lovable old gentlemen who weep at a Chopin ballade. If an Advance Angel of Judgment should undertake today to quiz the De Wendels of Eugene Schneider on the others of their business they would unquestionably answer; (a) they didn't invent the passions and cupidities that lead to war, (b)if they didn't supply the demand for armaments someone else would, and (c)they inherited the business, anyway...
...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...