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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having spent nearly a lifetime testing mankind to see what makes the cranial wheels go round, Psychologist Thorndike two years ago began to test U. S. cities to see which ones were fit for mankind to live in. So important did the Carnegie Corp. consider this study that it gave $100,000 to finance it. Dr. Thorndike and his collaborator, Dr. Ella Woodyard, selected 117 middle-sized cities, gathered data about them on some 120 traits. From these he picked 23 items which he thought most people would agree were attributes of a good town-a low death rate, high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Chief's GG | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Such are his peculiarities, but one thing about him will never be known: his I. Q. Since he devised most intelligence tests and knows all the answers, it is quite useless to try to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Chief's GG | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Walter Hammond is the greatest all-round cricket player old England ever developed. If Jack Hobbs was the Babe Ruth of cricket, Walter Hammond certainly is the Lou Gehrig. For the past ten years he has scored more than 1,000 runs a season, holds the batting record for Test Matches with 336 runs (not out).* Since 1920 he has been an outstanding professional on the Gloucestershire (county) team. As such he earned about $1,500 a year, entered cricket clubs through the professionals' door, saw his name in the score books only as "Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cricketiquette | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Coach Sargent's polo Players passed their first test with flying colors Saturday night when they downed the Ramblers 121/2 to 8 at Common wealth Armory in the season's first League A game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO PLAYERS WIN | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...contest which is expected to test the educational value of two of Massachusetts' leading institutions, the Harvard University debating team will engage in a battle of wits with the Norfolk State prison colony's forensic specialists this Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TEAM FACES PRISON | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

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