Word: tested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour-long, five-part test was developed by Carroll and Professor Stanley M. Sapon, now at Ohio State University, principally under Carnegie Corporation grants. Existing tests, Carroll declared, are not doing a sufficiently good job of predicting language success and have not kept pace with changes in the teaching of languages...
While the test's emphasis is on spoken language, he said, it also predicts written language aptitude...
Through exercises in phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary, the new test gives the individual "a sample of what it's like to learn a foreign language," Carroll explained...
Between pilots and their airplanes are secrets that no groundling can ever know. Each airplane has special tricks and foibles, and the pilot who fails to seek them out and test them will one day discover them in time of peril, and perhaps too late. Each pilot, for his part, learns that the well-designed airplane is more forgiving of his own tricks, foibles and lapses of good sense than he has a right to dream. Last week a great airplane's tricks met piloting foibles in a combination that was a heroic test of both sides, almost with...
...airplane was a brand-new model of the four-jet Boeing 707, the first 707 destined for Braniff International Airways. Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive sidewise skid, or yaw. Skid her too far one way or the other, he explained, and she will flip over.*At 12,000 feet over Seattle's suburbs, Pilot Berke, flying slowly with flaps down 40 degrees, tried to get the feel of impending trouble by kicking right rudder...