Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petition demanding that the Talmadge-packed Board of Regents be unpacked. The students rounded up a caravan of 108 cars, rolled out of Athens bound for the Capitol at Atlanta, 70 miles away. At their head was a jalopy flying red and black streamers and bearing Student Leader Alpha Fowler Jr., son of a State legislator. Behind came placards: We Don't Want a Discredited University. . . . Keep Politics Out of the University. . . . Talmadge, Phooey...
...alpha tocopherol, is found in green leaves, wheat germ...
...back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
...Army, no longer using the Alpha test, plans to substitute in its place the General Classification Test which abandons the old Alpha principles and concentrates on determining special potentialities of soldiers. More simplified, the new tests consist of questions in recognizing numbers, knowledge of enough vocabulary to understand orders, and judgment of distances and spaces requiring powers of deduction...
...Wells stated that test of the Alpha type might possibly be used after the men have been drafted to help determine special abilities useful in particular services with the Army. Trade and vocational tests can be used to find the proper placement of men in semi-military tasks...