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Word: test (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prisoners doing. He gave a few hints?now the clergyman was holding up a playing card, now a layman was putting something funny on his head, now one of the ladies was exhibiting a picture. The prisoners were putting their minds on what they were doing. The test was to see if, by concentration, telepathic messages could be broadcast for able thinkers to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lodgic | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...good test would be to have all self-styled astrologers predict that week in the future which will witness another such epidemic as swept the world last week-an epidemic of buying and selling newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epidemic | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...have no brains. Let us take the Binet test. If I do not beat you I will give you a prize. You have no right to a seat in the Senate. You know it. The disenfranchised Negroes know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Heflin v. Priest | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What is a morganatic marriage ? " "Who was the 'Wild Bull of the Pampas'?" Each pair of experimentees answered a separate set of 50 questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John Broadus Watson, on a test which included the question: "Who is the leading authority in the modern school of psychology known as 'Behaviorism'?" Novelist Alice Duer Miller batted out the highest score, 97%. Professor George F. ("Than") Whicher of Amherst and Editor Holland Thompson of The Book of Knowledge tied for first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ask Me Another | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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