Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Redland" and "Blueland." The official problem set "Redland's" commander would have taxed a Napoleon: to defend the mines and factories of northern manufacturing Britain, to preserve a way out of the country for minerals, inward for food and supplies. Real problem of the maneuvers was to test the comparative efficiency of day bombers and interceptors. Redland was given the fastest fighting planes, Blueland the fastest bombers...
...test matches that Long Islanders mean when, after lunch, they suggest "going over to see the polo." The actual team this year will not be picked until the night before the first game, but the men on it will be chosen from the "Red" and "White" teams which confront each other as tentative units, constantly rearranged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., captain of the U. S. team and chairman of the Defense Committee, had made clear that he would not consider anyone as trying out for a specific position. His purpose in the test matches was to arrive at combinations that worked...
Next task for Headmaster Richards was to improve his teaching system. Announced last week was this unusual plan, test-proved last Spring: 1) Henceforth each academic schedule period will be divided into two 45-min. periods, the first for recitation, the second for supervised preparation of the next day's lesson. 2) Every fifth appointment period in each course will be devoted to review and research. Boys will prepare written reports on their work. 3) Realizing that there are more and less advantageous periods throughout the day, Headmaster Richards has arranged a daily "staggered, rotating schedule." For instance...
There are U. S. ophthalmologists sufficiently skilled to write such prescriptions. But none, so far as could be learned last week, owns a complete set of 39 test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic or cosmetic reasons. Miss Robin's reason for wearing the lenses last week was to accommodate the New York optometrists. She was in constant fear that the glasses might break on her eyes...
...will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms. His life is literary, not political, yet active when the two conflict, for his was the leading test case under the rigorous Austrian muzzlelaw for critics. Works the U. S. may sometime read are: Prinzessin Anna (novel), Martin Overbeck (romance), Kinder u. Freude (drama...