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Word: type (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variation of this technique may be practicable in a new type of occupational test, Cramer feels: one that will increase a student's chance of discovering his true interests, divorced from external pressures that may have been exerted upon him. Instead of hearing a story through his earphones, the student will hear a succession of pairs of words -- for instance, stethoscope/habeas corpus -- and his subconscious will choose the one he will remember. In current aptitude tests, in which the student is given a set of questions and multiple-choice answers and will have time to consider the ramifications...

Author: By Ronnie E. Feuerstein, | Title: Les Cramer and His Super Speech Machine | 11/17/1966 | See Source »

Quarterback Taylor sparked Dunster's basketball-type offense with short passes to ends Nelson and Danny Kopans. Nelson scored two touchdowns, Graham Patterson scored three on defense, and even stalwart center Rich Friedell picked up two touchdowns and a pair of extra points...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Dunster Attack Smothers Eliot, 51-0; Three Teams Tied for Touch Title | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

Ruyle said he thought that the consoles along with the typewriters necessary to type out the problem could even be placed in Harvard or Radcliffe dormitories where students could conceivably do homework...

Author: By Stephen I. Kruskall, | Title: New Project to Let Harvard Students Learn to Control Computers in Hour | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

...student needs to do is type out a problem and watch the answer computed before him on a television console. Previously anyone who wanted to operate a computer had to know Fortran or some other machine language...

Author: By Stephen I. Kruskall, | Title: New Project to Let Harvard Students Learn to Control Computers in Hour | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

Olympian Ultimatums. In Victorian times, the game of Fathers & Sons was a ruthless affair. Lord Randolph, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, was type and exemplar of a caste-the British aristocracy, whose members had pride, privilege, titles to mark them off from lesser men, retinues of servants and the habit of ruling a vast household and an empire. They exacted a fearful price of admission from their heirs; the initiation rites were as painful as and more prolonged than those for an Apache brave. Before the little lordlings could dish it out, they had to learn to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Like a Delinquent Dunderhead | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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