Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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they should portray the romance and adventure of flying instead of ... comfort and speed. So he gave my theory a test and it proved out-at least we are . . . married and the advertising is being changed." Marriage Revealed. Hilda Jane Lehman, 19, adopted daughter of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Boris de Vadetsky, 27, onetime WPA actor, World War II ambulance driver; after eloping to Elkton, Md., Dec. 1. The Governor, declared his secretary, knew his son-in-law "only slightly." Died. C. Harold Wills, 62, automotive pioneer and founder of the old Wills...
...most instructors make no effort to add interest or insight to the mass of factual data of which seamanship consists. Effective presentation of those parts of the course given in Hunt Hall is additionally handicapped by poor acoustics and a scattered audience. And the exams make no effort to test application of knowledge by "what would you do with these facts" questions, but rather are invariably tests of detail memorization--except for the navigation problems, which an even higher percentage of prospective officers final. In fact, on the basis of November Hour navigation marks the majority of the Junior Class...
...draftee who says, "You can't do this to me; I'm a Harvard man." But bolstered by rumors that Government or Army officials have called it a "crime" to make buck privates of college-trained men, many undergraduates hope than once drafted, a degree or I.Q. test will single them out to be trained for technical or "white collar" jobs. Cheer has also been derived from occasional stories of college draftees who were promptly sent away to study meteorology or Intelligence Corps routine at Uncle Sam's expense. The picture is not quite that rosy. Men who obtain training...
This afternoon, however, the warm-up session changes into the real McCoy with a veteran Milton Academy squad prepared to take the Freshmen over the ropes if given the chance. This will be the test of the boys' absorption of Skip's coordinating efforts, and of their own teamwork ability. If the two week holiday layoff does not result in a complete universal of form, the nine games which follow, culminating in the Yale contest on March 8, should not prove out of reach...
Ultimate beneficiaries of a confidence boom are the consumers. For a time, excitedly watching their spending theory get its first real test, some New Dealers boasted that consumption would get the long end of this boom too. But 1940 killed any hope that Defense spending might be a short cut to plenty and graceful living. The imminence of rationing in steel, in aluminum, in tools, in a dozen lesser consumer-goods necessities made 1941 look like an uncomfortable year. In 1940, consumers did benefit; 1940 produced more guns and more butter. But 1941 would have to produce still more guns...