Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey: "The Hurtling Hubert is a missile of extremely long range. In a test firing last year, the Hurtling Hubert actually reached Soviet Russia, where its communication system kept running at top speed for eight consecutive hours. It is in constant television contact with the earth. Its fuel supply was developed largely in the mid-1930s, and some scientific circles feel a more modern source of thrust is needed...
...Another test of the SPT's validity was made in 1954, when the Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children in Boston, applied it to 57 boys ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, who had been treated for aggressive, destructive, anti-social behavior. The scorings made by the clinic psychologist indicated that 823 per cent of these boys, at the age of six, would have been clearly identified by the test as potential offenders...
Thompson, in a third experiment, applied the table to 50 girls, committed to the Division of Youth Service of the Massachusetts Department of Education between November, 1954, and May, 1955. This was only the second application of the test to girl delinquents. The first had been done by the Jewish Board of Guardians, in 1953, on 150 unmarried mothers, whereby it was found that 81 per cent of the women would have been correctly identified...
...this project will include other communities near Newton for the purpose of giving a broader test of the system in school situations of a different type...
With memories of last year's 3-0 loss to Amherst still strong, the varsity soccer squad will face the Lord Jeffs this afternoon at 1 p.m. in Amherst. This game will be the first real test of the Crimson's effectiveness, and coach Bruce Munro yesterday called the contest "one we have to win" in the interests of morale...