Acute discovery from 1928
Which of the following is the best synonym for acute: pretty, austere, chilly, sharp? One hundred such austere, even chilly, questions, were administered 50 years ago to University of Minnesota freshmen; they were also asked to answer questions based on about 40 short reading samples. The freshmen did pretty well: 60% were sharp (or acute) enough to get a score of 26 or better on the vocabulary test. Fifty years later, the man who devised the 1928 Minnesota test, Alvin C. Eurich, 77, now president of the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, decided to give the very same...
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