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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Flight Refuelling Ltd., a British company, was about to test flying tankers on the air's toughest main line: the stormy, midwinter North Atlantic. If the trials (scheduled for this month) are successful, refueling may eventually come into general use on long-distance airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fuel in Flight | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

When the mile-relay groups hit the boards, Harvard again trailed, this time with Rhode Island State providing the front-runners. This test resulted in a closer race, with the Rams breaking into the lead at about the halfway mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Relay Teams Lose to Bruins, Rams In Mile, 2-Mile Races | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

...effort to give everybody an opportunity to run, Mikkola has formed A and B quartets in both the one and two-mile varsity events as well as in the freshman one-mile relay. The two-mile test, matching two Crimson teams against one from Brown, will open the program at 4:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relay Quartets Open Track Season Today | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

...story, based upon an Associated Press release from Denver, stated that 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers had been given a history test in Denver by the Rocky Mountain Nevus, and that the average grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...facts are that four teachers were given the test. . . . One of the four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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