Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test Case. In Nashville, George Willisschlegelsleenhousenbergerdorff applied for a job as a typesetter...
...when and whether a war is "just," says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial bombing as must involve the slaughter and maiming of innocent civilians ... To kill the innocent is not a lawful means...
...which of her 165 pupils could have wanted to shoot at her ("They all seem O.K. to me"). After the math exam, the detectives began questioning the kids. One boy could only stammer his answers. Questioned further, he admitted that he had not signed his own name to his test paper: he was taking the examination for a friend...
...fiendish test had been devised by the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. Contestants were top students in 1,362 U.S. high schools...
...Moore and Dorothy Price of the University of Chicago told the National Academy of Sciences how they sent some rodents on purposeful vacations. They assembled congenial groups of rats, mice, guinea pigs and hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...