Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps the test simply proved that the Navy's month-and-a-half-old communiqué on Alaska was not news...
...state of armed belligerence for more than ten years. Since 1931, Moscow and Tokyo have reported at least 2,500 border clashes. Most of them were tiny, local affrays; a few were on battle scale, with planes, tanks and artillery in full combat. Each army used them to test the weapons and tactics of the other, and the Japanese got some unpleasant surprises. On the Khalka River in 1939 the Russians produced new tanks, which appalled the Japanese and probably postponed any plan for all-out war that Tokyo was nursing. Together these incidents made a fantastic chapter in modern...
...blood cells, have a much higher amount of vitamin B1 in these cells than do normal persons. Conclusion: there may be a way to starve cancer cells by depriving them of the vitamins they especially need. Dr. Rhoads hinted at the startling discovery of a chemical which in the test tube strangles cancer cells without disturbing the normal cells...
...juggling their test with physical, aptitude and intelligence tests, Messrs. Humm & Wadsworth claim to be able to direct an individual almost unerringly to the right vocation. Some of their deductions: too much self-control (i.e., overconservatism) is as bad as too little; a good foreman must be cheerful, self-controlled, decisive; a good salesman is usually selfish and stubborn; tough guys make the best welders and combat flyers; a wide variety of types are successful as riveters; introverts are happier on assembly lines than extroverts...
Star Humm-Wadsworth client is Lockheed Aircraft, which has given the test to 350,000, including its president, Robert Gross (who surprised nobody by turning out to be temperamentally O.K. for his job). Thanks to its use of the test, Lockheed says, the company has the lowest aircraft-labor turnover in California (less than 1% a month), fires less than 2% of all the men it hires, and has had no serious labor disputes. Dr. Humm's most spectacular single achievement was his test of 60 trainees in a United Airlines school. He predicted that seven...