Word: verbalizations
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Ready finally admitted yesterday that he gave verbal permission for the rally "so long as they behaved themselves and were good little boys," but he said the parade was to have been conducted through the Yard, not through the Square...
...finally retired from practice in 1840, he decided to extend his listings further. To Roget, the abuse of language was becoming a menace. "A misapplied or misapprehended term," said he, "is sufficient to give rise to ... interminable disputes; a misnomer has turned the tide of popular opinion; a verbal sophism has decided a party question; an artful watchword, thrown among combustible materials, has kindled the flame of deadly warfare . . ." Roget hoped not only to end the menace but to give the speech of ordinary men "wings for flight...
...includes tests on number facility, inductive reasoning with number material, spatial relations, non-verbal reasoning, verbal logic, rote memory, verbal fluency and mechanical reasoning. Each student is given a score for each one of the 21 aptitudes...
...other type of operation is the minimal. Most Architecture concentrators are average in Arithmetic, superior in spatial relations, superior in design recognition, and superior in non-verbal reasoning. Unlike the predictive operations one does not want to be as high as possible in these operations to do well in Architectural Sciences. Quite to the contrary; the more closely one approximates these rankings the better one seems to do in this field. A low score on a certain operation may be just as important as a high...
...assignment as Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe, by approximately June 1st, and that I be placed on inactive status upon my return to the United States . . ." The letter was dated April 2, the first anniversary of the day Eisenhower formally established SHAPE headquarters in Europe. At Ike's verbal request, the exchange was kept secret until he had an opportunity to tell his NATO fellow officers his basic decision: he has decided to return home to run as a GOP candidate for President...