Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show he runs. Instead of saying: "Please say that over again," Ned King invariably says: "Please come back to the post." Of horse shows and horsemen he philosophizes: "Most people are like horses. Some are stayers, others sprint and too many are incorrigible. We ought to have a saliva test...
...carry delicate weather instruments as well as tractors, copper, hides and hemp, marble, oil and tin. The instruments will record weather conditions for Export's year-old subsidiary-American Export Airlines, Inc. If their data gives as clear a green light as last week's stock issue, test flights will start next spring with a Consolidated flying boat...
...action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...
...many courses as possible. If ghost writing were eliminated and the burden on seniors from too many written papers relieved, the advantages from such a course of action should convince even the most conservative members of the University that an essay is a more searching and a more accurate test of a student's ability than an hour exam...
...assign essays in addition to hour exams, whereas the latter can and should substitute papers in the place of these exams. Certainly the only excuse for "hour troubles" is the necessity for a half-semester grade for Freshmen, since an essay on a small subject would be an incomplete test. And yet a great many advanced courses have hour-exams which are merely an unnecessary check-up at a time when an essay would determine the student's real ability much more clearly. There are, however, certain drawbacks in assigning written papers instead of giving tests in class, and these...