Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, one big reason why TIME has been so interested in sponsoring these Current Affairs Tests is that TIME's whole purpose is to keep busy men and women well-informed briefly, clearly, comprehensively-and the Current Affairs Test is just one more way of checking how well TIME is doing...
...news-for example, "Which of these statements comes closest to what you think the Little Steel Formula means?" and "From this list of names, identify the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the President of the C.I.O." When the investigators put these same questions to a test group of TIME subscribers in seven cities, they found these TIME readers 89% better informed about these subjects than the average high school graduate, 17% better informed than the average college graduate...
...scores on previous Current Affairs Tests seem to confirm these findings: Out of the 105 questions in every test, college students score an average of 58 right answers-while TIME readers score an average...
...Manhattan, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 50, intending to vote for the first time in New York, hastened to P.S. 9, passed his literacy test, said he would vote for Dewey. Said the Babe, who played baseball 21 years: "I don't think anyone is good enough for 16 years...
...Domineering Sex. Though more vulnerable, the male surpasses the female in every test of physical capacity except those requiring fine, coordinated movements (e.g., sewing, buttoning, dressing, etc.). No woman has ever equaled men's records in any athletic activity. Even in horse racing, stallions are faster: only one mare has won the Derby (Regret, 1915)-and she had a big weight advantage...