Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought attacks by power interests and partisan politicians; he also ignored the advice of quacking liberals, refused to cram TVA down anyone's throat. Said he: "The test of a plan is not just whether it is good for people. It is whether they will accept it." He refused to set up special experimental farms. Instead, by offering free fertilizer for the beaten soil, he persuaded thousands of farmers to experiment for themselves. TVA encouraged communities to form their own power districts. It never used its authority in attempts to compel acceptance. TVA did not destroy state boundaries...
Then the 82nd went to England, to prepare for the biggest test of all. With the 101st and the British 6th, its men spearheaded the invasion of France. Casualties were heavy. Many a rifleman of the 82nd died in the ditches and orchards of Normandy. But the outfit secured its area, broke through, crossed the Douve and led the drive which sealed off Cherbourg, later taken by the 79th ("Lorraine"), the 4th ("Ivy") and the gth-all infantry divisions...
...wait for strength, air power would get its second, and probably greatest, test. By last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack...
...ashamed to go home the day he flunked in fifth-grade Tolerance, and again on the day his model crashed into the airport during an eighth-grade flight exam. But it was not until he took his post-Common Learnings aptitude test that he really became troubled: the test unmistakably marked machine-minded Peter as a potential teacher of economics...
...world, got to thinking that the Great Books his teachers talked about might really be worth reading after all. During his 100-day, 10,000-mile tour of the country, he found himself more interested in the business side of things, decided that maybe the post-C.L. test was right. In his Chinese and Russian classes, he got As and Bs in all his voice-recordings. His graduation trip to Shanghai was a whopping success...