Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chew-Chew. In Philadelphia, when a test blackout started, the John L. Riccitelli family of eleven were about to sit down to their hamburgers. When the lights went on, the hamburgers were all in Chu-Chu, the family...
Back to Back. Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force probably had enough planes to provide support in the air. From North Africa came reports of P-38 Lightnings meeting and beating Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 109Gs in their first major combat test. The difficulty was the lack of airdromes near enough to the front. The small French bases that were available were not equipped. Oil, gas and equipment for servicing had to be laboriously moved up. The difficulty was supply...
...permitting the determination of physical fitness without expensive equipment and specialized personnel, and in a short period of time, the Step Test is especially important in wartime when we are dealing with large groups of men and when tiptop condition is essential. The test is already being used in certain branches of the armed forces where a high degree of physical efficiency is required, especially in pre-flight training. it is also serving to help select officer candidates, for an officer must be physically able to lead his men at all times...
...Athletic Department, which cooperated wholeheartedly in conducting the tests, has found the Step Test invaluable, in their aim to put every Harvard student at his maximum and keep him there, so he will be in condition for armed service. "For, in order to decide how much work a boy needs to put him in good physical shape," Dr. Brouha explained, "you must know how much he needs and how much he can take...
Through the Step Test the Athletic Association has been enabled to concentrate on the average student as much as the team athlete. And the Hygiene Department, which encloses the Grant Study, can now extend its efforts, to the healthy as well as the sick student with clearer aim since there is a proven connection between physical efficiency and good health...