Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...framework of fact is necessary to more advanced study, but a good memory for names, dates, and places should not be considered the criterion of historical acumen. The Times test is weak in its exclusive attention to memory, and the conclusion drawn in its editorial, "that our high schools need better teaching in the subject," though it is probably accurate, is not supported by the mass of irrelevancies cited in its report...
Sordid Side. As witnesses the Committee called steel foremen, metallurgists and plain mill hands. Their evidence: 1) most of the chiseling was in the tests of the chemical content and tensile strength of the steel plates; 2) false entries on the test sheets were a "common practice." Big point in the investigation: Did faulty Carnegie-Illinois steel cause the Kaiser-built tanker Schenectady to break in half? The answer: yes & no. The American Bureau of Shipping report chiefly blamed poor welding ("There was neglect [in] adhering rigidly to established welding procedures . . . there were insufficient numbers of trained, experienced welders...
Room assignments for the A-12, V-12, test this morning will be as follows...
...candidates are reminded of the instruction printed their admission form, to bring at least two soft lead pencils to the test...
...candidates are reminded of the instruction printed on their admission form, to bring at least two soft lead pencils to the test...