Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good examinations are a test of comprehension of material. Comprehension does not mean the ability to bounce back a list of facts or a memorized theory, but rather the ability to put the facts together or work the theory into a meaningful picture. How test this true comprehension? By requiring original thought based on the material, by requiring a variety of interpretations of the facts...
From the minute Shirley Mann began to sing "I'm Checking Home Now" till the ensemble's final triumphant warning that "The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's music drama had a sympathetic Sanders Theatre audience. Saturday night. If the test of a good play is its grip on the listeners, then "The Cradle" was a success...
...comes, the strength, stability, efficiency of the Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains...
...Director Jones, big test of the two-day festival was the five-hour B Minor Mass. Composed about 1738, when Johann Sebastian Bach was in the plenitude of his powers, it is the only Catholic mass written by the Lutheran composer.* Bach chose the form because its complexity gave adequate play to his technical resources and expression to his love of God. For many years performed nowhere in the U. S. but at Bethlehem, it is now an annual climax to other choir seasons, is perhaps the most famous liturgical choral work in existence...
...entered a 167, fitted with U. S. instruments and equipped for Air Corps tactical missions, in the Army's attack-bomber competition. Douglas, which has also been one of the big Army contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...