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Word: testing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's undermanned junior varsity hockey team couldn't shake the exam blues as they flunked the test administered by Northeastern yesterday, 7-5. Suprisingly enough, the defeat came at the hands of a team that the Crimson had demolished earlier in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Drops 7-5 Decision to Northeastern | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

Fortunately for the world and me, American troops were being pulled out of Viet Nam. I never had to test my own alternative, the way Larry and Dave did, and see if I could stick it out in my way as well as they did in theirs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Larry's Save-Your-Life Diet | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...noon on January 15 to midnight on January 17. It includes recorded works conducted by the composers, taped interviews, and recordings no longer available or never commercially released. Anyone who can endure this listening session should be a match for any Mem Hall or Burr B session with Mr. Test...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Here To Fray, Gone Tomorrow | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...after Amy's first day on the slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort's beginners' slope, Peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1978 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...schools select their students solely on the basis of scores on the entrance exams, but also admit qualified minority students with slightly lower test scores than their white counterparts. Overall, the three schools are 60 per cent white, 40 per cent black and hispanic. Since these figures do not reflect the racial make-up of the city's public school population (55 per cent black and hispanic and 45 per cent white) the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has filed suit against the schools on charges of discrimination against minority students. OCR wants the entrance exams changed, and wants...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Weed Grows in Brooklyn | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

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