Word: quizzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday afternooners on MBS's nine-station network, is a weekly cross-patter of sense and nonsense run by veteran Commentator John B. (for Bright) Kennedy in a 192-seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between two girl teams." The sense part is a weekly question of public importance, debated earnestly before...
...lectures in October and November, and one in December, would give ample time to replace January lecture hours. Since there is a section meeting once a week for 'C' men and "dumb-bunnies", the supplementary lectures would necessitate several bi-weekly tests for these sections. Ordinarily they have one quizz a week, except in the latter part of the year when bi-weekly tests are instituted anyway...
This innovation will remove to a great extent a feeling which is always prevalent among both men taking exams and instructors grading them, namely, that certain individuals tend to be over-excited and flurried whenever they start to take a quizz in any subject. By giving time for consideration of the paper, much of this unfortunate acepticism will be removed...
...floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...