Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that in turn are linked labels which stand for verbal descriptions, inferences from the object...
...audio tube, Pulitzer-Prize Poet MacLeish pointed out that since radio engages only the ear, "verse has no visual presence to compete with. . . . The ear is already half poet." Poet MacLeish then proceeded to give the ears of the U. S. radio audience 30 minutes of the finest verbal music of its time...
...college organizations invited are expected to participate in the affair not only from the standpoint of sponsorship, but in the open forum discussion following the formal debating. Council officers said yesterday that they confidently expected a hot verbal strife to arise if both the Student Union and the Young Independents (formerly Young Conservatives) are in attendance...
Much on the lines of the scholastic aptitude test most students take before entering college in their Freshman year, the quiz covers in addition non-technical subjects such as literature and fine arts, physics and chemistry, biological sciences, social studies, verbal aptitude and mathematics...
...biology man is found strong in biological sciences, physics and mathematics, very low in literature and little better in fine arts and verbal aptitude. Most concentrators in literature score highest in their own field, but, surprisingly enough, do badly in verbal aptitude...