Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they jump into a field of special concentration for which they are possibly not well fitted, graduate students are being subjected to a rigorous six-hour examination covering everything from verbal aptitude to physics and chemistry...
Fritz Morstein Marx, professor of Government will brave the verbal missiles of his colleagues on the faculty, and those of undergraduates tonight as he speaks on and defends the Munich Pact in the Eliot House Common Room...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
Anthony Eden, who had been expected to land heavy verbal blows on Neville Chamberlain, frowningly told the House: "Now that the world can breathe again it is the duty of everyone to take stock. A great national effort is called for to ensure that Europe will never again appear so near the abyss...
Likely to be influential, he found, are: 1) Students who get good marks; 2) individuals with high verbal and mathematical ability; 3) Jews (Protestants were next and Catholics last); 4) individuals who are least selfconscious; 5) radicals; 6) students who are liked by their classmates. Whether an individual is emotional, neurotic, sociable or an introvert apparently has no relation to his ability to influence others in discussion...