Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test reform with public opinion appears to be a way of avoiding concrete suggestions, but unfortunately it is the public judgement of values which must be changed: and it cannot be changed if public opinion is not conscious of the role it is playing. Keys and ribbons and other tinsel will be of no avail if the effectual public opinion remains grossly ignorant of the error of its ways...
...Department of Justice was on the lookout for a newspaper-dog or two. When the dogs were caught?or rather selected?the equivocal tax-publicity law, as set forth in the publicity clause of the Revenue Act of 1924, would be tried on them in test suits. It was a matter of interest to the public which, of thousands of available canines, the Government would select...
...final test, Lieut. George W. Goddard flew between the two towns in a haze of very low visibility; without paying the slightest attention to possible landmarks, he kept his course with practically no deviation...
...prominent man recently said: "Most people live their lives and die without ever knowing what they are really capable of doing. They never learn, because they never put themselves to the test." Sophomores, verbum sapienti satis est! The first hundred years are the hardest. The work will be explained tonight at seven o'clock at the Crimson building. Down goes the gauntlet...
Explaining his suggestion, Professor Root said: "At the end of each term would hold a three-hour test consisting of three of the most frightful puzzles ever invented. The possibilities are equally great for the classics or history departments. Imagine a cross-word puzzle made up entirely of Latin words. Cross-word puzzles consisting of biological or chemical terms could also be used. In that way the perpetually bored student could find interest in his work...