Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public relations and press liaison officers. Need for a better job of selling the Liberal Party to the people was clearly indicated by the past year's record: except for the New Brunswick Liberal victory (won largely in an anti-Ottawa campaign), they have lost every major election test...
...times. Foreign service takes all its officers from Stoke; home service still chooses some by written and oral exams. U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, after watching 21 candidates go through Stoke, returned to the U.S. "definitely impressed." Said he last week: "The ones that survived the test were certainly outstanding. The ones who weren't outstanding didn't get through...
Examiners pinned a number on the front and back of each man's coat. On the general-information test, the Burma war veteran (who was No. 17) was asked: 1) Who was the Prime Minister of Iran at the beginning of the Azerbaijan dispute? 2) Who was the C.I.O.'s first boss? 3) Who founded the 19th Century science of criminology...
...intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were pointing upward and left unshackled, it would take off like a rocket, each pound of its weight overbalanced by more than two pounds of thrust...
...special province of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In three great laboratories (Langley Field, Va., Cleveland, and Ames, Calif.) the earnest, enthusiastic scientists of the NACA are digging out deep-hidden facts about high-speed flight. They put experimental wingshapes in big & little wind tunnels, and test their behavior far above Mach i. They test engines and engine components in wind tunnels too, to see how they behave at great speed, low pressure, low temperature. They devise new, more powerful fuels and high-temperature alloys...