Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Induction. Early in his Army career he pays a two-day visit to one of the Psychological Laboratory's 17 testing stations. He is seated in a chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power...
Dorothy Lamour offered to write to any draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...
...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...
Before anyone had time to make much capital of this point, another test case proved the opposite. The Philadelphia Co. offered $48,000,000 of 4½% bonds, $12,000,000 of serial notes. The bonds were won competitively by a Kuhn, Loeb and Smith, Barney group for 100.3375, the notes by Mellon Securities and First Boston Corp. for 100.07. Next day the underwriters reported unusually high takings by small dealers, as well as by the public...
Thus at week's end, the score on competitive bidding was still not final. Wall Street already looked forward to a new test-Standard Gas & Electric's sale of its 590,527 shares of San Diego Gas & Electric common stock, due next week. The San Diego issue will also test another SEC-Wall Street controversy: whether investors will go into public-utility common stocks...