Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while the Duke of Kent looked on. Remarked the Duke, setting the test for future skeptics: "Bridge is already sufficiently difficult, without adding further complications...
...examinations will be constructed so as to test not only technical competence but also originality. There will be a range of choice. A minimum of knowledge required for the examination would represent two years work in calculus, a half-year each in higher algebra and differential equations and a year's work in analytic geometry...
...tough weekend is the prospect for the Varsity swimming squad. With the Navy meet on Friday night and the Princeton test on Saturday, the Crimson tankmen face two of the hardest contests of the current season. And Coach Hal Ulen's opinion is that the Princeton meet will prove to be the hardest of the year, tougher than Yale...
...read that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." She knew that pectin, the substance in fruit which causes them to jell when stewed, somehow cures diarrhea and dysentery in babies. She discovered that pectin kills bacteria in a test tube...
Ralph Tyler, who smokes cigars incessantly and races trains in his automobile, is a professor of education and crack test-man at Ohio State University. But his biggest job is director of evaluation for the "30 schools experiment" of the Progressive Education Association. He is testing graduates of 30 progressive high schools, admitted to college without examination, to show how good a high school can be when it doesn't have to prepare students for college-entrance requirements. What classical-minded Robert Hutchins had to take to get Ralph Tyler was the entire P. E. A. evaluation staff, which...