Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now the Harvard Student Defense League has done little but talk and sport buttons rivalling those of Mr. Willkie. In contrast is a concrete proposal for undergraduate training, which they will test on Monday by a poll of the student body...
Make way for the Michigan Wolverines and the fatal afternoon of October 12, a real judgment day for 1940 Harvard football Tom Harmon, undoubtedly one of the three or four greatest runnings backs of all time, will provide the acid test. Cracking over a guard, slinging a touchdown pass, or skirting a distant flank are all in the day's work for this miracle man wearing the Maize and Blue. And he has the pleasing faculty of picking up anywhere from seven to 28 points during a Saturday matinee...
...Resisters League (over 17,000 strong), headed by hulking, 6 ft. 4 Evan W. Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed as a C. O. in World War I), conducted its first New York public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft...
This week General Charles de Gaulle and his Free Frenchmen went into action against "Free" (unoccupied) France. Quite a bit was at stake. Theirs was the first real test of the Frenchmen's revolt against France. If it succeeded, the whole French Empire might swing in line with London rather than with Berlin. Furthermore, there was an immediate stake: six pro-German French warships...
...Despite the fact that 57.5% of the men who answered the poll declared opposition to student waiting if it could not reduce the board rate, the sympathetic majorities in answer to the question sounding opinion on a test lead us to believe that the plan should be tried this fall in one or two of the Houses...