Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palm & pine upon which the sun never sets and in which the people call themselves Bahamians or Rhodesians, New Zealanders or Canadians, but are at heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...
...other words, the true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and therefore his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. In the coming test, pacifists have to prove their faith by resolutely refusing to have anything to do with war. . . . Such resistance is a matter for each person to decide for himself and under the guidance of the inner voice, if he recognizes its existence...
...that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test it, let us say, by a general examination, that would be quite a different matter...
...Scholastic Aptitude Test, Emerson Hall. Required for these new students who have not already taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrances Examination Board, Place to be announced later...
...rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...