Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourth street, Marietta, O. He attended Marietta High School. He is the son of Henry L. Sullivan, Superintendent of Schools in Marietta. He was tied for first place in scholarship ranking in his class and won first place in his county this spring in the general scholarship test for high school seniors. He was an officer of the student council and president of his class for one year. He was editor-in-chief of the school annual, was a leader in dramatics and debating, and was an officer of several student clubs. This year he had the highest score...
...president of the debating club. He won the current history essay contest of Scholastic magazine in 1934, was district winner in extemporaneous speaking in 1934-35, was winner of the local essay contest in 1934, and was third place winner in the State of Kentucky in a world history test...
...This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...
...exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street or backing into a parking space. Laboratory tests would compel the candidate to demonstrate ability...
...Rhode Island contest until he saw newspaper headlines the following morning to the effect that the New Deal had taken a stiff drubbing in the smallest of states. Others less preoccupied were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign. Postmaster General Farley, vacationing westward, had as usual wired the chief Democratic nominee ''best wishes" on a happy term in Washington...