Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes did not vote last week in Georgia. In spite of the fact that some 5,000 Negroes had registered and paid poll taxes in Fulton County (Atlanta). Negro leaders saw to it that only enough Negroes should appear (and be turned down) at the polls to make a test case in the courts...
Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
...higher education received an unusual recruit last week. "Sunny" Ainsworth, 20, thrice-married seventh wife of Playboy Thomas ("Tommy") Franklyn Manville Jr., breezed across the University of Chicago's sweltering campus to take her three-hour aptitude test, first hurdle on her way to matriculation. Sunny was as refreshing as a breath from the Pump Room...
...also something of a challenge to the University of Chicago's new placement-test system for college candidates, which is itself a challenge to the oldfangled college-entrance system...
Last month Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins threw up the window to let a little fresh air into that system, threw out the old-style high-school credit requirements. He substituted a series of quizzes to test the students' actual knowledge and ability to learn. The tests take more than 13 hours, cover the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences and English. Cried President Hutchins: "Educational bookkeeping" has been abolished. Educators wondered...