Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tousle-headed John Martin Costello, 36. † Last month the New York Legislature (Republicans) made a lump cut of $30,000,000 (about 10%) applicable throughout the Budget submitted by Governor Lehman, who last week, on the advice of his Attorney General, decided to let the measure become law, test its constitutionality in court...
...Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
...Terriers have profiled from a week's tour of the south during Easter vacation and should be able to give the Crimson a real test. Captain Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Age Cordingly, and Bob, Graves are the four veterans in Harvard's lineup, while Lou Roewer and Waddy Dickerman will make their first Varsity appearances in the five and six positions...
This slothfulness can arise only from ignorance of the size of the evil. The tutoring poison has permeated the whole organism; it leaves little untouched. Examinations are no test of knowledge when the examined have had the questions spotted or stolen for them in advance by academic hijackers and have been crammed with the answers. An acceptable thesis means nothing when the material has been organized or the whole paper has been written by a tutoring school. A course credit is no fitting reward when the recipient has not turned a hand to secure it. A diploma is a valueless...
...studious, balding Clare Bunch, 36, took over St. Louis' Monocoupe Corp. four years ago and found only $20 in the bank account, he has made things hum at that tidy little airplane factory. Oil-stained apostle of hard work, he slept in the plant, did all his own test-flying, worked with the factory hands when he was not busy at the drawing board improving the basic Monocoupe, a two-seated monoplane ($3,875), or designing a bigger two-engined job. Last week, with the bank account considerably more than $20, Clare Bunch lifted his nose from the grindstone...