Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...presented Columbus as a fraud, a promoter, an exploiter of the achievements of others-especially, when he learned that the authors of such books, no matter how skillfully they could find their way around the archives, had no knowledge of the sea. Last fall Professor Morison set out to test his own generous and idealistic picture of the great Discoverer, by sailing a 147-ft. barkentine, La Capitana, eastward over the route Columbus followed on his return voyages; by sailing westward from Palos, whence Columbus set out, to the Canary Islands, thence to Trinidad, Columbus' landfall on his third...
...still at work on his process to make newsprint from the pesky, resinous southern pine, Rayonier had put its research staff of twelve Ph.D.s to work in its laboratory in Shelton, Wash, on a process for using southern pine for rayon pulp. Laboratory-proved, their process had its production test on Dec. 6 when the Fernandina plant turned out its first batch of pulp, 30 tons. For the South, proud of industrial growth, it was also a first: today Fernandina is the only producer of bleached sulfite pulp from southern pine. (Other Southern plants produce sulfate pulp, for kraft papers...
...such a hard job to do this as it might seem. Once an examination requires more than the parroting of memorized facts and theories, it has already beaten the tutoring game. A good exam is a test of the comprehension of material, and its method is to require original thought based on the material, or to require a variety of interpretations of the material. Tutoring schools can't help here, because all they can do is pound home a few dozen essential facts, and perhaps hand down a two-bit stock interpretation of these facts. If the exam questions involve...
Unfortunately, not much can be said for the remainder of the Greenwood team, particularly in the free-style departments. Accordingly, Coach Ulen is expected to shift his men around considerably. He will try to enter as many of the squad's inexperienced men as possible, and will test his veterans in events to which they have not been accustomed...
...when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album of eight sides with one side apiece by Jesse Stacy, Clarence Profit, Mary Lon Williams, Count Basic, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Johnson, and others. This reviewer heard several test pressings and if all the rest are as good the album will be really colossal. . . . Raymond Scott has been doing very well with a little ditty entitled "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," swiped from one of the earlier efforts of a boy by the name of Mozart. Johnny Kirby, whose...