Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street...
...carry charge accounts," said President Herbert James Tily, "and somebody has to pay it. ... We are happy to extend credit and we shall continue to do that. But we feel that it is a discrimination against the cash customer and the customer who meets his obligations promptly to assess them part of the cost of maintaining the credit structure. ... It is time someone undertook this much-needed reform...
...purchased more than 10,000 bags of colored popcorn. Aware of the popcorn's destination, alarmed zoo officials posted bright new signs which read: DO NOT FEED OR ANNOY THE ANIMALS. $25 FINE. The "$25" was a bluff, since New York magistrates fix their own fines, usually assess persistent animal-feeders only $3. But zoomen felt their lie was white in view of such zoological mishaps as the following, all caused in recent years by visitors catering to bestial appetites...
...Will Not Assess Students...
Bingham's statement that he would not assess students for athletics in order to furnish funds for athletic competition "for a few," leaves the impression that he is considering the possibility of an athletic tax on undergraduates, since he states that "in our case intercollegiate competition involves hundreds...