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...first lecture the scope and causes of reading difficulties will be discussed; thereafter the Harvard Reading Films will be shown for eight minutes during every class, followed by a short quiz to determine how much the student has learned from the showing. Work in the manual, which teaches selection of important ideas, skimming, and quick comprehension, concludes the period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 Yardlings Take Course To Increase Reading Speed | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

Tanks a Million (Hal Roach; United Artists) puts a cheeky Quiz Kid (William Tracy) just where most cinemagoers would probably like to see him: in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the Army is in such shape that the Kid (named Dodo Doubleday) very nearly runs away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Until last week the real name of Professor Quiz was a big question-a $64 question. Then out of Boston came a sharp, domesticated sound. Mrs. Arthur E. Baird confronted the Professor (known extra-curricularly as Craig Earl) as her ex-spouse, demanded $100 a week alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vanda's Show | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...warm-up for six months of maneuvers that will put up to 472,000 troops into battle at one time (during September in Louisiana), the Second Army's first fight was no more than a quiz; the final examinations will come later. Army officers were only incidentally interested in the fact that the numerically weaker Red Army (30th Division) backed up before the Blues. They were vitally interested in what signs the Second Army's troops showed of acquiring the sheen and polish of first-class fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Test in the Field | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Harvard intellect was shown up over a coast-to-coast hook-up last night when Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44 was crushingly overcome on Professor Quiz' question and answer show. Rosenbloom, commonly known as the "sagebrush of Matthews," could only tie for third, with 191 points out of a possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Matthews Sage" Suffers Quiz Program Humiliation | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

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