Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much intrigued by your current events test [TIME, March 11]. I have been giving such tests for 15 years. Why can't TIME do all over the U. S. what I did for the Brooklyn Eagle in Brooklyn-run current events bees for high school and college students, then bringing the winners of local bees together for State and national championships...
...Your test is weak because in many cases it does not furnish sufficiently plausible alternatives...
...express my thanks for the mental gymnastics provided by your current events test? It has served to "jack me up" on my perusal of TIME. Of late I had neglected the cover-to-cover method usually followed, and the test caught me on things I should have known. Incidentally, my latest issue has my fingerprints on every page...
...TIME, if you birds had published Everett Shinn and all of his works six months ago- and had pepped up each week your Art column with his type (if such exists in quantity) I would have rated [10 points higher] on your Current Affairs test of the same March 11 issue because I would have read each Art column from C to C (civer to civer); without benefit of Shinn, however, I never read Art, because it doesn't help me much in my job of cotton-raising...
...today no responsible person in Louisiana dares challenge his power. The Governor is his puppet. He curses his State Legislature to its face and then boldly boasts that "they are the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." The State judiciary is so packed with Longsters that a legal test of the Senator's autocracy is out of the question. The State guard is, in effect, a private political army to put down any and all anti-Long squawkers. The State's election machinery is so rigged that an outsider can never win. Political scientists may deplore such...