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Unfair questions, which manage to slip by the board of experts, are usually spotted in the experimental pre-test, which every question must pass before it is to be included as a bona fide question on an ETS test. Experimental items are often included in the regular college board exams, where the student does not know that the question will not count towards his scores...
...trouble spot was retail sales. After holding fairly steady during January, sales began to slip. The March totals dropped 2% below February and 5% below March 1953. Mail-order houses announced gloomy figures. Sears, Roebuck sales were down 12.2% from last year and Montgomery Ward was off 22.8% for the month and 19.4% for both February and March. Retailers explained that mailorder catalogue prices were rigid compared to department stores, said people were beginning to shop around for bargains...
However . . . items picked up from a New York newspaper and reprinted in your magazine are entirely uncorroborated. For instance: "At Manhattan's Haaren High . . . five fires were set in a single classroom in a recent week. Only two were reported by the teacher for fear his disciplinarian slip might be showing." . . . There were two fires, both set by one pupil. Prompt action was taken. The pupil was caught, he appeared in court and was placed on probation. Within the memory of the principal, no comparable incident has ever occurred at that school . . . "A teacher recently stopped a fight between...
Hardly any ex-Glee Club member who sang under Davison can forget his manner of conducting. In his pamphlet "The Reformation of the Glee Club" published in 1922, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 described a typical Davisonian rehearsal: "As you slip into a seat at the rear of the room, you hear, cutting through the deep, swelling tones of the chorus, Davison's sharp voice: 'Now's your chance! That's it! Good! First rate! This is a bad place; look out for it! That's the way, basses! Eyes! Eyes...
...increase has been 2.1%. Tory M.P.s, chafing under the discipline required by their slim 18-vote majority, began speculating happily that a 2.1% increase, if extended countrywide, would mean a Tory majority of 100 seats at a general election this fall. Such a majority, they reasoned, would let them slip away for dinner parties and evenings in West End theaters instead of being always on call, lest Labor outpoll the government on a snap vote...