Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolph W. Samborski, Assistant Director of Intramural Athletics, has announced that the passing grade of the step test has been lowered from 75 to 65 per cent. Samborski added that this change in the passing mark would affect about 170 men whose grades were between these two figures. Those men will be notified of their present standing by mall...
Samborski announced, however, that all those who failed to achieve a grade of 65 or over, will take half an hour of special conditioning class four times a week until their deficiency has been made up. Over 400 incoming Freshmen took the test during the first week of the term...
...election would be the test. But during the coming campaign the U.S. voter would have time and opportunity to get to know the G.O.P.'s new face, and make up his mind how well he liked...
...Test. An ex-professor, Major Henry M. Sweeney, found the answer to that one the hard way. He sat down in a pressurized cabin which in turn was within a low-pressure chamber. A hole was punctured in the cabin, the air whooshed from the major's lungs. He was not seriously affected. Apparently close to collapse, he was still able to put on an oxygen mask and pull himself together...
...place where he can make dreams come true, has had something like the B-29 in mind for many years. Early in 1940, his Air Forces asked for designs that would embody the Arnold idea; Boeing's was just the ticket. After first test flights in September 1942, scholarly Test Pilot Edmund T. ("Eddie") Allen reported: "We have an excellent airplane." Eddie Allen was later killed in one of the three crashes which marked the B-29's test-flying period...