Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trying to find out why inefficient readers read poorly, Professor Buswell discovered that many of them "vocalized," i. e., moved their lips or otherwise indicated that they were laboriously pronouncing one word at a time instead of taking in several. He tested his subjects with a passage of tongue-twisters. Because tongue-twisters make silent readers as well as lip-movers vocalize, they slowed down the efficient readers more than the inefficient ones. From this test Dr. Buswell concluded that the schools' old oral method of teaching reading was partly responsible for people's bad reading habits...
Undefeated Varsity matmen face their first crucial test today at the hands of champion wrestlers from the University of Pennsylvania in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Crucial Test...
...latter card will be an interesting test of the corrector's ability to judge impartially. It may be that on receipt of his post card, with another added for good measure from University Hall, the southern vacationer will find himself free to continue studying history for the rest of the year in Palm Beach...
...Eurich & E. C. Wilson -Holt ($2.50). Concise, authoritative, 523-page digest of 1937-8 complex world news-in politics, government, crime, science, religion, art, literature, cinema-by the Test-Makers of TIME. Illustrated...