Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foundation concluded that this alarming state of affairs was probably representative of the U. S. as a whole, that to remedy it the colleges must: 1) choose their students more carefully by establishing a central registry of high-school graduates' ability, by seeking and financing the best students; 2) stop putting all students through the same hopper and advancing them on the basis of time spent in classes. Elated at the proved reliability of the objective, multiple-response tests they used to measure students' knowledge, the report's authors, Dr. William S. Learned, a staff member...
...signposts seeming to point to Gargantua the Great, described as "the only full-grown gorilla ever seen on this continent," Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus arrived, as punctual as spring, for its annual opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. Gargantua out-ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared- elephantastically in a howdah-for the first time in any circus, out-ballyhooed John & Henry Ringling North who, after payment of $823,000, last winter brought back into the Ringling family control of the circus...
...took seven Bibles, slipped a paper marker into each, put the Bibles on the pulpit. Seven men, chosen by the congregation, came forward, took the Bibles and returned to their seats. All this was in accordance with Proverbs 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free." To the fourth, a hay & feedstore employe named Franklin L. Alderfer...
...Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole...
That Whitman might have been inspired by the powerful social movement at the time of the Civil War, that he might, for a few years, at least, have been a real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...