Word: testings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission had said the line was worth $45,000,000; road officials claimed $76,000,000 valuation. Such discrepancy, if extended to all U. S. railroads, would mean 20 to 25 billion dollars and a great tumbling over of the price of securities. This was considered a test case, but really...
...into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...
...formal lectures and recitations, surely gives liberal allowance to student opinion on this score. But it goes further. It takes very effectively into account the immense amount of work which has been done in recent years in the investigation of all those conditions which may be shown, by scientific test and inquiry, to be the most favorable conditions under which human beings can work and study and enlarge their capacities. The novel departure at Harvard pays real deference, in short, to the modern science of pedagogics. The declaration that "the student must have time for consecutive reading and other large...
...urged that American students are too immature to make good use of more freedom. Our experience at Swarthmore proves that the best students worked better with much less class instruction. The whole country will watch the results of the Harvard plan as applied to the entire student body. The test will be whether it brings Harvard men up to their examinations better prepared in their various subjects than they are at present...
Into Broadway's recent sex flurry (TIME, Feb. 21) stepped Publisher Horace B. Liveright, last week. "For Art's sake" and as a test case to determine the scope of police jurisdiction in censorship, Mr. Liveright promised soon to produce The Captive, a play dealing with one woman's abnormal fondness for another. The Captive voluntarily ceased showing, after it had been charged with being a "public nuisance...