Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare pleasures which relieve the tedium for them is to bustle importantly into an examination, strip the wrapping from the examination papers, and view for the first time in print those mighty cerebral efforts which are to be the nemesis of the class. Then suddenly half way through the test it will be discovered that question 2a is all wrong; a correction will be announced and question 2a will be rewritten with muted curses...
...presented by the Bible and Shakespeare examinations last spring in the field of History and Literature, when a large portion of the questions were not concerned in any way with the required reading. Apparently, whoever was in charge had neglected even to glance at the papers until the test had actually started, when it was too late to rectify the error...
This aspect of genetics was notably presented for court action a year ago in New Haven where a justice of the peace permitted Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist, to perform the blood test. This test is the issue of the blood classifications which Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute discovered when he was a young researcher in Vienna 30 years ago. There are four main classes of human blood (O, A, B and AB). If, for example, a woman whose blood was of type A had a child by a man of type A, the child...
When the young mother in New Haven heard this learned exposition about bloods, and saw the putative father cleared by the test, she withdrew her accusation instanter (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). Thus the question of blood tests for paternity could not be appealed for a court of last resort to set a precedent...
...South Dakota last fortnight a Supreme Court for the first time in U. S. jurisprudence did pass on the question, but negatively. One Clement Damm denied that he had raped his adopted daughter, demanded use of blood tests as evidence. The trial court refused his request and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed the lower decision, though dissenting Justice S. C. Policy thought a blood test might have proved Damm innocent. Said Justice Dwight Campbell, after referring to TIME's account of the New Haven case: "It does not sufficiently appear...