Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test, drawn up by the College Entrance Examination Board, will seek to ascertain general knowledge, including vocabulary and social studies, rather than a concrete and exacting understanding of legal doctrine. A deeper view of student aptitude is the intended goal of the test, which may eventually be adopted by all the nation's law schools...
...Risk. But the Wallace entry into the presidential race inspired a flurry of furious calculations among both Democratic and Republican politicos. GOPresidential hopefuls, who had to face their first test in the June convention, promptly began figuring the odds all over again...
Doughty Premier Robert Schuman's government had beaten the Communist "insurrection" (TIME, Dec. 8). Last week it survived its second major test. The test came over Schuman's drastic measures to fight French inflation...
...Mayer was anxious to sign him up for a seven-year contract. Darryl Zanuck was eager to trust him with the leading role in a $3,000,000 production (Keys of the Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services of a promising...
After 20 years of test and experiment, television finally moved out of the laboratory and into 170,000 houses and bars. From comparatively nothing, television grew into a $100,000,000 industry giving Philco's President John Ballantyne reason to predict: "1948 should see 500,000 television sets [made] with a value of over...