Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
...Prosser rejects "cold-storage knowledge" in repulsive psychological terminology on the grounds that the student "loses all such indispensable assets for efficient learning and its retention as interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils...
Harvard's standard-bearer admits that he would welcome an opportunity to test the prowess of the numerous pretenders to his crown who have sprung up since his epic feat on March 26. "I really doubt whether all of them have been following the rules of the IGGA (Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association)," Clark said. The record has kept on soaring sky-high, as many a lad has made his fame and fortune. At present Joseph Deliberate is accredited (unofficially) with bringing the title to Clark University by downing $9, eclipsing Gordon Southworth's 67 for Middlesex College...
Boeing's 33-passenger Stratoliner, pressurized to travel above the airways at 20,000 feet, was in her death throes, had broken up in an engineering test dive. Down the crippled ship came, spinning, straightening out, sailing like a piece of ragged paper, carrying the ten men in her to sure death...
...crashed in a wooded ravine. From the flattened fuselage, stretched out like a beached and broken whale not far from where her wing and engine lay, workmen took the bodies of three Boeing pilots, the chief test pilot of Transcontinental & Western Air, four Boeing office and shop employes and two Hollanders who had been thinking of buying Stratoliners for Dutch airlines...