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Every person who takes the examination will receive a chart of his attainment in the several fields of knowledge tested. The chart gives evidence of the student's accomplishment, which may be used to supplement the information supplied by grades earned in college; it reports the present status of knowledge which the student has accumulated from all sources--independent reading, home background, observation, non-curricular interests, as well as his formal education...
...decade beginning this year it remains to be seen whether Lenin was right, whether the U. S. literary liberals will bring their intelligence to bear effectively on the side of democracy. Already they had made a beginning. Waldo Frank had written one guide in his Chart For Rough Water. Mumford had written another in his simple and moving book Faith for Living, while in seven words he phrased what until then millions of his countrymen had felt obscurely: "The struggle is for the human soul...
...entirety, will be in the water before 1947. But last week, the rambling, white-walled Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue was full of the expectation that most of the great fleet would be in commission by the end of 1945. Unofficially, Navy officers said that this chart of deliveries was, if anything, on the conservative side...
Since 1933 Variety, U. S. weekly show chart, has annually made a survey of radio, awarded plaques to outstanding networks and stations. Last week Variety passed out its 1940 kudos. Plaques went to NBC for promoting "programs in the public interest," to the National Association of Broadcasters "for its code defending tolerance," to CBS for "stimulating local show management," to Young & Rubicam for effective radio copy, to Mexico City's XEW for leadership in show management...
...trouble getting men, even though Marine Corps enlistments are for four years. It still picks and chooses applicants, rejecting about 80%. By week's end the strength of the Corps, recorded daily on a chart in General Holcomb's office, stood at 37,500 (not including 4,000 reservists being called to active duty). At the training stations at Parris Island, S. C. and San Diego, Calif., young recruits were put in tow of hard-mouthed N. C. O.s in starched khaki, to be taught how to look, act and think like Marines...