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 Get a mental image of the appearance of a schoolroom you have known.



Hearing imagination:

Imagine a four-cylinder automobile motor, with one cylinder missing.

Grade your imagination as you recall the voice of your favorite radio announcer.

How strong is your imagination in recalling the sound of a coarse file at work on brass?

Muscular imagination:

Imagine you are winding your watch. How distinctly can you feel the ratchet and the increased resistance of the spring as the watch is almost wound?

How vivid is your imagination of the muscle strain in throwing a ball with all your strength?

To get a total for each variety of imagining power add the grades you gave yourself, keeping each of the three sections separate and comparing the sums.

Use your imagination to fill in these blanks so the paragraph makes good sense:

When Fulton ... the first steamboat on the Hudson river a couple of ... men ... a living by ferrying ... from New Jersey ... New York. A few ... were engaged ... operating sailboats up the river. These ... fought the steamboat bitterly ... they feared that a few ... would do all the ... they were doing and that most of them would lose their ...

How many words can you build with the letters e, b, a, h, t, m?

A fertile imagination will be able to see many words using only letters included in this list.

 



Rust-proof washers with "cogwheel" edges, that grip the surface to which they are applied with numerous points about their rims, are said not to spread or jar loose and permit the use of As they are thinner than the usual kind and light in weight, they are adaptable to many special uses and are fitted for any part subjected to vibration.