Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law disappeared into the voting machines and quickly did their duty. Franklin Jr., 21 in August, slipped hastily around the corner to Hyde Park High School to take a literacy test. No one had been able to find his Groton School diploma, but it did not matter. He passed the test with flying colors...
...Play will be held at the Big Tree Swimming Pool next to the Hygiene Office today. From 2 o'clock until 6, and from 7 until 11 o'clock auditions will be given all undergraduates with no discrimination as to class or previous experience. The first brief trials will test only the voices and appearances of the candidates. Next week the director of the play, a New York coach, will select the actual players for the fourteen male parts. Radcliffe and Erskine School are counted upon to supply twelve actresses...
...Thoma conducted a musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which...
...aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene...
...agency can and should be of use to undergraduates, particularly Seniors. Even if one feels assured of a position upon graduation, it is advisable to go to the Alumni Placement Office to test one's ability "to create an opportunity" and perhaps find, as a result, that a choice of occupations is possible. But for the majority, who do not know where their bread will come from after four festive years, and who are beginning to be bothered by the twin imps of doubt and perplexity, nothing could be more valuable...