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Word: testing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Swearing in the Rain | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

These new examinations, designed to test the general skill and intellectual promise of all students, will be given by the College Entrance Examination Board in 150 centers scattered throughout the United States on April 24. Applicants for all Harvard first-year awards will be required to take these exams, including all Harvard National Fellowship applicants. Individual Harvard Club awards, however, will be given out separately by the different Clubs throughout the country, although the Clubs may require their candidates to take the exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL APTITUDE TESTS PLANNED FOR SCHOLARSHIP MEN | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...range with tracer bullets. A sedan disintegrates before your eyes under a few seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

Educational insurgents claim that College Board examinations not only fail to test individual intelligence but prove nothing because all marking systems are riddled with radical discrepancies due to the variations of mood and personality among examiners. Deciding to survey the broad question of "Examinations and Their Substitutes," the Carnegie Foundation inaugurated in 1931 an international inquiry, assigned Dr. Isaac Leon Kandel of Columbia's Teachers College as its U. S. investigator. Last week one section of Investigator Kandel's 175-page examination of examiners contained much salve for wounded Hunkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Examiners Examined | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Wary of the educational anarchists who denounce any form of test as tending to prostitute pure mental development, Investigator Kandel noted in his report that recently many marking systems have been thoroughly overhauled and newer, more comprehensive essay-type examinations substituted for mere yes-&-no tests. Nevertheless, concluded he: "What is clear from the use of tests is that there is no single measure for predicting educational success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Examiners Examined | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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