Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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P.A.C.'s real test will come...
...Allied attitudes and beliefs which these books examine are still alive in the world, and must soon be put again to the test of peace...
...Postwar demand for goods is likely for a year or more to test the productive capacity of U.S. industry. With 57 million people working 7.5% fewer hours, the out put of goods would fall short by a small margin of meeting the probable demand." So prophesied Harvard's ruddy econo mist Sumner H. Slichter in Chicago last week, before some 200 regional chairmen of the Committee for Economic Development. To support his thesis Slichter fired a series of cold facts...
Starting off with a 26-foot rope climb, the test will last for the better part of a week and will include, in addition to the rope climb, a landing not descent, 100 yard dash, 100 yard obstacle course--"The Guadalcanal Special,"--and lastly, a 3.7 mile cross-country jaunt along the river bank. The "Special," feature of this endurance test, is a straight sprint over walls, ditches, and sandtraps, a submarine dive, and finally zig-zagging through a maze of sandtraps and runways...
What the Hell. So did Sunny Ainsworth. Not that the aptitude test was hard. "I didn't do anything flashy," she said, "but I guess I got by." After the three hours' grilling in the boiler-room temperature of Cobb Hall, Sunny's slightly hennaed hair was still schoolgirlishly neat, but her academic comment was caustic. "I can't understand," she said, "why the University of Chicago gives tests like this. They're poorly made up, if you know what I mean, and I don't think they show what kind of a mind...