Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After a two day test period in which the Crimson Network found that it was unable to reach the whole college, broadcasting activities will be suspended for the remainder of the week...
...girls 37%, of the boys 29%, had constant worries. Approximately half of them worried only now & then; the rest said they never worried at all. The three chief worries of both boys & girls were the same: 1) failing a test, 2) mother working too hard, 3) mother getting sick. Other big worries: having a poor report card, father working too hard, people telling lies about you, being late for school, being scolded, doing wrong, getting sick...
Since psychologists must always have a conclusion: "[It] would seem to indicate that our school system lays too much emphasis upon 'failing a test,' 'having a poor report card,' 'being late to school' and 'being left back in school.' We cannot easily reduce children's worries about family matters, but we might very well do so in regard to school matters that are not very significant for the child's future growth and development...
...public at a $2 markup, for $17,156,040 in all. To Atlas, the sale of U. P. & L.'s Indianapolis stock meant cashing in on around $10,000,000 that had been frozen in U. P. & L. To utilitarians, underwriters and SEC, the deal was a test case, whether the public would pay $24 a share for an operating stock yielding (on the basis of 1939 dividends...
Like Hemingway's definition of guts ("grace under pressure"), the true test of urbanity is staying power. By that test, "Elizabeth" is one of civilization's minor triumphs. For readers of her 20th novel, Mr. Skeffington, will find themselves firmly taken in by the same diverting, lightly troubling, perfectly delicate and occasionally outrageous wit that distinguished Elizabeth and Her German Garden 42 years ago and The Enchanted April 24 years later...