Word: whicher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John Broadus Watson, on a test which included the question: "Who is the leading authority in the modern school of psychology known as 'Behaviorism'?" Novelist Alice Duer Miller batted out the highest score, 97%. Professor George F. ("Than") Whicher of Amherst and Editor Holland Thompson of The Book of Knowledge tied for first place among the men, with 96%. But the editors dedicated their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them...