Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such grind as the old College Boards, the new tests measure two qualities: scholastic aptitude (skill in reading, problem-solving, etc.) and "general achievement" (a short-answer test of knowledge in certain fields). Advantages: both can be taken in a single day and they are easy to grade...
...draftee reports to the recreation center where: (1) he is interviewed by trained personnel technicians for the purpose of recording all of his civilian education and experience to assist in properly assigning him to some branch of the service; (2) he is then given a simple classification test to determine his mental ability for all future references; (3) a series of regular training films will be shown so that he may know the basic principles of military courtesy; (4) the Articles of War, the laws and rules that govern the conduct of military men, are then read and explained...
...Europe and the Far East men are starving, but the U.S. is still blessed with abundance, and the land has not yet been put to its utmost test. There is still a margin, for shipments of food to the U.S.'s allies, for replacement of oils which once came from the Far East. Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard, who had announced the greatest farm program in history only last September, has revised his goals and announced others still bigger. This year the land will be asked for more & more of its wealth. And the land will respond...
...Aussies were to test in blood a British gamble. Sometime ago the British Command had recognized that it could not hold north Malaya. Its troops were outnumbered four-to-one (or more), out-planed, outgunned, later out-tanked. There were some 1,000 miles of coast to defend, a half-score coastal inlets that invited Japanese flanking...
...make 2,000,000 more men eligible for its Air Force, the Army will now take men as young as 18, whether married or unmarried. A college education is no longer necessary. If applicants can pass a special test, they will be accepted...