Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whose Ox? In the first ten days...
Ross Wyatt took the stand, told in detail how Mary Jo had drawn two hearts, arrow-joined, when she applied for a job with him; how he first kissed her, how they became intimate three weeks later, how they took a ten-day trip to Florida at her suggestion, spent weekends in tourist camps and hotels, how she loved...
...AGES TEN TO FOURTEEN
...should like to see the palace turned into a home for people fallen on evil days at the end of their lives. If they had ten bob [$2] a week-or even less-they could come here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that...
Professor Euros had suspected that nine out of ten tests were unreliable. To check his suspicions, he got 133 top-rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...