Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's institutions have been put to their most searching test in the past month by intensified bombings and tightened counter-blockade. Responsible editors and statesmen alike spoke out with stark frankness, and what they spoke was not altogether cheering...
...defend themselves against it. Set up were: a Pan-American-patrolled neutrality belt, machinery to take over European-owned New World colonies, plans for economic collaboration and mutual military defense of the hemisphere. But these blueprints for security had only theoretical, not practical, approval. Last week the first real test of Pan-American solidarity arrived...
...tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called on to support twelve. In an official test the column held up 60 tons...
When asked what chance of success the Plan had in weathering the Supreme Court test, Downey was optimistic. Although similar proportional representation plans have been declared unconstitutional in Michigan, California, and Rhode Island, he stated that details of the various plans and not the proportional representation itself had been the cause for the decisions, and that there should be little chance for that to happen in the present case, inasmuch as Dean Landis, who has had a broad experience in administrative and Constitutional law, claims that the Plan is legal...
...ways? Armed with this thesis, the Commission last spring began conferences with college officers. It proposed that colleges substitute simpler entrance requirements. A suggested plan: 1) recommendation of a student by his high-school principal, 2) the student's high-school record, 3) a scholastic aptitude test, 4) a comprehensive English examination (because a student needs to read and write...