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...each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Last week a small but select group of internationalists gathered at Adelaide for the fourth and last stop on the annual world tennis cruise. Competitively, the company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down Under | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Paris' exhibition of L'Art Cruel (TIME, Jan. 24) had not long closed its doors on a willing world before there opened last fortnight in a small, select Galerie Beaux-Arts an exhibition with a broader appeal. This was the first international show of Surrealism (superrealism) ever held in the city where that movement was born.* Critics who have been forgetting about this weird school's pristine vigors were reminded of them forcibly when the opening night turned into a near riot, with 2,000 chittering Frenchmen milling around the gates and a troop of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Super | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Cornell will select 25 or 30 men, while it is expected that Pennsylvania and Dartmouth will both sends groups of 20 men to the conference at Ithaca at the end of April...

Author: By Daily Pennsylvanian, | Title: THE PRESS | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...schooling ended when the U. S. entered the World War. Repurchasing its stock from Zeiss, Bausch & Lomb tackled a job no other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Long Grind | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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