Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larger pensions for workers, going into effect earlier, in order to allow young men a chance at jobs held by their elders...
...greater than the sum (10,000 francs, or about $390) is the honor attached to the annual R. E. P.-Hirsch prize of the French Astronomical Society. Far greater than the practical effect was the imaginative content of the work for which a young German named Oberth, experimenting in Rumania, last week received this year's Hirsch award...
...vaudeville stage with a piano, Sophie Tucker is impressive. Although she sings with all the traditional embellishments of the three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish...
...This brings us to a consideration of school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses...
This morning at 9:15 o'clock those men taking Government I will complete their year's work in the course by taking the final examination. And yet for a large number of these men this examination will have no real effect on the mark they receive for the course...