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...each of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Highest praise should go to President Truman and the nine Congressmen against the Rankin ("Veteran's Grab") Bill [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . No veteran wants to be treated as a member of a select group; if his country's cause is just, the veteran does not feel that his country is in debt to him for having served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...three-and-one-half hour examination, prepared by the Educational Testing Service at Princeton, is required by several American law schools for admission. The E.T.S. recommends that applicants for admission in September, 1952, take the November or February test, since many law schools will select their classes this Spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Law School Entrance Test to Be Held November 17 | 10/13/1951 | See Source »

TIME'S covers aroused as much interest as anything else, with most criticism coming from those who thought (erroneously) that the editors necessarily confer an honor when they select a cover subject. They objected to such covers as Stalin, Costello and Eugene Dennis. Cover subjects are not picked by popularity contests, they were told, but by careful evaluation of their influence on the news, good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...women file some 200,000 words (about equal to two copies of the Iliad) a week to New York, more than half of it by TIME'S own teletype network. They also supply some 30,000 less urgent words a week by air mail reports, and select and mail uncounted other documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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