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Word: testing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This course is the prescribed composition course for Freshmen. In previous years only those men who passed a special test were allowed to omit the course from their schedule. Last years there were over 800 men enrolled, while only 100 men anticipated the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW RULING FREES MANY FRESHMEN FROM ENGLISH A | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

Four years ago Graham McNamee walked into WEAF, asked for a job, took a voice test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Voices | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This was no way to win a test of physical skill and mental poise, they reasoned. They saw Mrs. Horn complete her first round with the shocking score of 88. But Mrs. Orcutt had completed the round with an evermore shocking score of 91, and was 2 down. When Miss Orcutt sliced her losing margin to a single hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Cherry Valley | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...model of the Harvard football machine will get its initial test on the Soldiers Field turf this afternoon when the team from the University of Vermont comes from the Green Mountains to share in the festivities of another gridiron opening. The starting whistle is scheduled to blow at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERMONT TO GIVE CRIMSON ELEVEN FIRST 1927 TEST | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...only an additional interest and which in its fourth completely redeems itself. The desired "checking up" mentioned by Mr. Aiken is to be discovered at the end of the student's final year; there it lies in wait for him in the shape of examinations calculated to test the worth of the theory itself, the tutee and the capability of his tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIFTH WHEEL | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

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