Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux Klan. "If any organization, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether Ku Klux Klan or by any other name, raises the standard of racial and religious prejudice or attempts to make racial origins or religious beliefs the test of fitness for public office, it does violence to the spirit of American institutions and must be condemned by all those who believe as I do in American ideals...
...Reduction. "When a reduction in the burden of income taxes could no longer be denied, the country was presented with the Mellon bill, offered by the Administration to the people as the last word on that subject. When it met the test of impartial analysis, here, too, there appeared the motive to favor the few possessors of swollen incomes beyond the many of moderate means...
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...York City, one William Whittle advertised for a stenographer, put his arm about the waist of an applicant, held her hand, was arrested at her mother's request. Said he to the magistrate: "Before I hire a girl I always test her morals by putting my arms around her and patting her arms. If she don't resent it, I know she is used to it and not the kind of girl I want in my office...
...called 'intelligences test,' as an alleged means of measuring native ability and 'intelligence,' is of very recent origin. . . . Group tests proved to be 'both cheap and speedy and were quickly injected into the public,schools after...