Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's aims are partly scientific but mainly-and frankly-military: 1) to train personnel and test equipment in frigid zones (away from the North Polar region where the Russian bear crouches); 2) to develop techniques for operating bases under arctic conditions...
Radioactive Tracer. The most spectacular test used radioactivity. A little of the unknown synthetic which the chemists hoped was penicillin was made up with radioactive sulphur built into its molecule. Mixed with natural penicillin, it was put through recrystallizations and chemical transformations...
...most prestigious test factory in the U.S. is in Princeton, N. J. Last week the factory worked overtime cooking up new devilments for defenseless scholars. An old client, the Navy, wanted a new test to pick 5,000 candidates for Annapolis...
...Navy job was the latest model of objective ("pick-the-right-answer") aptitude test, the current fashion in exam-making. The no-man test factory, a nonprofit outfit called the College Entrance Examination Board, tailors special exams to order for the State Department, the Pepsi-Cola Co., many another customer. But mostly it works out mechanical ways of measuring who should and who shouldn't be admitted to 55 member colleges, mainly in the East (among them Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vassar, Smith...
...after Nicholas Murray Butler got the board started, the first 973 test-takers were private-school graduates who had taken pretty much the same studies. It was easy for the board to hit on a half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay...