Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked in four consecutive polls since last September by the American Institute of Public Opinion to choose between Franklin Roosevelt and any Republican Presidential candidate, scientific samplings of the nation's voters boosted the President's score each time until by early last month he had a 55-8% popular vote, was ahead in enough states to give him 407 electoral votes. Last week the Institute revealed the result of its first poll since Republicans named their nominee. Popular vote: Roosevelt, 51.8%; Landon, 48.2%; electoral votes: Roosevelt, 259; Landon...
...revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth scored a clean 97-missing three questions in Transport, two in Business & Finance, one each in Science, National Affairs, Foreign News. I am curious to know how this compares with the average score. HUGO SCHWENKER Sauk City, Wis. Median scores on latest TIME test: college students-53 ; senior high school students...
...rest of the hotel was bedlam, and wide open for the multitude of delegates to shake hands, slap backs, bend elbows, rub shoulder^ with half-a-dozen Cabinet members, governors by the dozen, Senators by the score. In such a crowd Ambassadors, mayors, Representatives and children of the President were small potatoes indeed...
...Jews in Palestine. During the War he was not only an intelligence officer with the Arab Bureau in the Near East, but assistant political officer in Palestine. In a statement on the Palestine terror in the House of Commons last fortnight he confined himself to droning out the bloody score: some 40 Arabs, half a dozen British soldiers, some 30 Jews killed. "The daily average of attacks by firearms in Palestine," continued the Colonial Secretary, "runs from ten to 15. Attacks on roads and railways have averaged eight daily. There have been from five to ten bombings daily...
...numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet...