Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next term Miss Alpenfels will teach 600 sophomores in three Chicago high schools. She is planning a textbook for the course. A University of Chicago attitude test will be given before and after the course, and a final one a year later. Results will be compared with tests given to students whose curriculum is the same except for anthropology. If the results seem successful, the course may be made general in Chicago schools...
...qualify for the program a physical examination and a test based on a sound knowledge of mathematics, electricity, radio, and shop practice must be passed. Upon successful completion of the course, men are graduated with the rating of Radio Technician, Second Class...
...southern Georgia only a half-dozen wells have been drilled, but 8,000,000 acres are already under lease, mostly to big companies like Humble, which have already spent more than $2,000,000 for test drillings. In the little turpentine town of Waycross, near the Florida line, oilmen are so thick that the Chamber of Commerce has taken over the whole second floor of the Ware Hotel to accommodate them-and its own Oil and Gas Committee...
...officials and trainmen agreed that the device would soon pay for itself. Hitherto, train crews could communicate with one another only by stopping the train, sending a crew member trudging the whole stretch of the freight. Such necessary, time-consuming stops are frequent. On last week's test run four important train messages, one reporting a hotbox, were relayed from cab to caboose. Without radio the trainmen figure it would have taken them three hours to get the message back, meantime delaying other trains behind them...
Uncorking the Flame. Back in Britain, bookish young William devoured Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Neal's History of the Puritans, and Calamy's Account of the Two Thousand Ejected Ministers. Guests were surprised when the child entertained them with discussions of "such matters as the Test and the Corporation Acts, or the interpretation of a point in Scripture:" At the age of 13, Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased...