Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broadcasted. Students stay at home and retire early, headphones in place. Next morning they awake refreshed and go forth to examinations with every fact stowed away in the brain. Then there will be an end of college failures, for every one knows, theory to the contrary notwithstanding, that examinations test only facts. Parents will he delighted. Students will need to study only twice a year, and them in one's sleep. And withal, the Dean's list will read like the Register...
...hoary old motif of musical revue, the lie-detector, reappears in the edition of "Artists and Models" now current at the Majestic, this time in the guise of a mysterious chamber lined with ancient plates, one of which falls whenever a lie is told. It would be interesting to test that room by discussing last night's show inside it. The strong suspicion is that almost every favorable comment would be drowned by the crash of shattering china...
...Nothing could be more unfounded and foolish than this accusation. It betrays a tragic lack of objectivity on the part of most of the propagandists for the World Court. They are under the spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations in the effort to diminish the chances of war. Being in this subjective frame of mind they are impatient with those who insist upon examining the World Court proposal without parti pris...
...badinage across a tea-table were carried on in black and white; if ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week invited the girls of Radcliffe College to contribute to their humorous column, The Crime...
...When, as a matter of curiosity and to test my theory, I called attention to the fine playing of Dartmouth and suggested that that was enjoyable and well worth seeing, the silence and looks of astonishment on the faces of the Harvard 'grads' were most illuminating. What manner of man was I?, there looks seemed...