Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the test of war had put the tank in its proper niche - a powerful but not a supreme weapon - even devout Armored Forcemen took a new view of its employment. No longer can the armored divisions, immoderately proud of their dashing cavalry background, expect always to go into battle in the full strength of their organization...
...physical test, which is easily administered with little skill or special equipment in now being used all over the country, including the Naval Pre-Flight Training School at Chapel Hill. The personality interview has been used here as a preliminary test for Harvard V-1 candidates...
There are three different tests which determine the suitability of a candidate for officership. The first, an eight minute physical efficiency test, has been used here by the Hygiene Department. If consists of merely stepping up onto a stool twenty inches off the ground, and then down again, to the count of "up-2-3-4, up 2-3-4 the command 'up' coming every two seconds." The heart rate is measured immediately afterward and at regular intervals for 3rd minutes, and the rating is determined by a special formula...
These new techniques, or more accurately, new developments, were the result of long experience in the longer methods over a period of five years. Although they admit that their tests are perhaps not as thorough as the longer ones, the authors say that nevertheless, the "Step-up" test has an efficiency of 90 to 95 per cent as compared with other methods, and the other two tests have likewise proved their worth
Personalities Gauged. By using this test on many healthy people and on mental cases diagnosed by experienced psychiatrists, the inventors of the game have learned the answers that are usual in different situations. A series of simple clerical manipulations (which his untrained receptionist can work out for him) gives a doctor a graphic picture of his patient's personality as the cards see it. The doctor need not even know what answers were given to individual questions...