Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates for a civil service job are given the same test, graded impartially. But personal qualifications are also weighed, and that ushers the political equation into the civil service. On the theory that most men selected as Prohibition agents, and transferred last year from the Department of Justice's Prohibition Bureau to the Treasury's Alcohol Tax Unit, were Republicans, Tennessee's wrinkle-faced old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar at the last session of Congress adroitly tacked a rider on the Emergency Appropriation Act. It stipulated that the 1,195 investigators and special investigators (salaries...
Perhaps the Department of Chemistry does not wish to encourage dilettantes, among its test-tubes. It is unfortunate, however, that those desiring an approach to the laboratory method while concentrating in the humanities or social sciences have been forced into other fields simply because the lords of Mallinckrodt have confused science with mechanization...
...similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard. Since this is apparently impossible at present, a very satisfactory substitute is available. The scholastic aptitude test, as a criterion of native ability, and the comprehensive English examination, as a criterion of preparation, should be required of every applicant. In conjunction with these the present demand for a transcript of the school record should, of course, be continued. An oral examination of the candidate for admission would also be a valuable method...
...know medical men say it would take 20 years to test our theory properly. I say it can be done in three months. Let the medical profession run fair tests with all details publicly released. It does not dare to make these tests because the results would show that we are right...
First of its kind that anyone knew of, the test showed the vault airtight, hence watertight. With safety-deposit boxes only six inches from the floor, the bank's officials deemed the possibility of a flooded basement real enough to be guarded against. The door was built by York Safe & Lock Co., machined by hand to such precision that a scrap of tissue paper in the frame prevents it from closing...