Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines. There is Churchill the Conservative and Churchill the Liberal, and Churchill the World War I battalion commander who bought up one French town's "entire seasonal production of peach and apricot brandy." Above all, there is Churchill the phrasemaker, who could beat even Bernard Shaw to the verbal draw. Before an opening night, Shaw once sent Churchill a pair of tickets with a note saying: "Come to my play and bring a friend, if you have a friend." Churchill sent back the tickets with the message: "I'm busy for the opening, but I'll come...
Ready finally admitted yesterday that he gave verbal permission for the rally "so long as they behaved themselves and were good little boys," but he said the parade was to have been conducted through the Yard, not through the Square...
...finally retired from practice in 1840, he decided to extend his listings further. To Roget, the abuse of language was becoming a menace. "A misapplied or misapprehended term," said he, "is sufficient to give rise to ... interminable disputes; a misnomer has turned the tide of popular opinion; a verbal sophism has decided a party question; an artful watchword, thrown among combustible materials, has kindled the flame of deadly warfare . . ." Roget hoped not only to end the menace but to give the speech of ordinary men "wings for flight...
...includes tests on number facility, inductive reasoning with number material, spatial relations, non-verbal reasoning, verbal logic, rote memory, verbal fluency and mechanical reasoning. Each student is given a score for each one of the 21 aptitudes...
...other type of operation is the minimal. Most Architecture concentrators are average in Arithmetic, superior in spatial relations, superior in design recognition, and superior in non-verbal reasoning. Unlike the predictive operations one does not want to be as high as possible in these operations to do well in Architectural Sciences. Quite to the contrary; the more closely one approximates these rankings the better one seems to do in this field. A low score on a certain operation may be just as important as a high...