Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What would the new pioneers find? A vast land, raw, primitive and barely scratched by civilization after 80 years of U.S. ownership. A frontier society-easygoing, vigorous, elementally democratic-at its worst unabashedly bad, at its best unaffectedly generous. Opportunity-but at the price of a stiff endurance test. And to beckon the pioneers on, for good or ill, the deceptive promise of an economic boom (begun by the war, protracted by the proximity of Asiatic Russia), and the deceptive intensity of the brief Alaskan summer...
...Junior Davis was more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet...
Toughest questions in the test: What public position have you taken about 1) the present Government of Poland; 2) the trial of Archbishop Stepinac; 3) the present Government of Greece; 4) the Vatican v. Moscow? Would you be willing to be quoted publicly as supporting this statement (from Pope Pius XI's Encyclical on Atheistic Communism): "Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever...
...hush fell over the Yard as James S. Simmons, Dean of the School of Public Health, stepped up to award the degrees in that subject at Commencement ceremonies last week. Maybe a shoemaker should stick to his last, but no doctor should be completely immersed in the test tube...
Welcome Back. Holland made its first postwar test of the U.S. private-capital market with a $20 million bond issue floated by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The money will be used either to repay an Export-Import Bank credit or for reconstruction. At week's end about 95% of the bonds were sold...