Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried he: "That airplane bombing had all the appearance of a tryout to test if the Catholics of America would be alarmed or enraged at the implied threat to bomb the Capitol of Christendom...
Results from the only true test-battle-were in, and had been tabulated. Daily revised, the report lay every morning on General Arnold's desk. It was the first thing he picked up. With its facts behind him, he gave his summary of U.S. battleplane performance...
...card game which is also a test for psychic abnormalities has been worked out by Drs. Starke R. Hathaway and John Charnley McKinley of the University of Minnesota. All the player has to do is go through 550 statements printed on cards, file each card as "true" or "false" or "cannot...
Dave Noyes' boat will have a stiff and acid test when it meets Cornell, Navy and Pennsylvania. The close race with M. I. T. last Saturday did not do much to inspire waves of over-confidence in the crew. And the opposition in the City of Brotherly Love will be of higher calibre than the Engineers' offerings. All the crews that Harvard will meet have been out on the water two or three weeks longer than the Crimson...
...Tested in Battle. To some it seems unfair that single men who were drafted last year have opportunities beyond this year's crop of father-soldiers, but the exigencies of war rarely make for absolute fairness. The noblest method of becoming an officer is still open to all soldiers who face the enemy: commission in battle. Many officers were "made" on Guadalcanal and in New Guinea.* Like the machines of war (see p. 69), not all men of war can stand the test of battle. For those who meet the test of leadership in battle, there are still ample...