Word: testers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which appeared in S. E. P. day before the Louisiana Senator was assassinated...
...question was admitted by Testers Terman and Merrill without being tried out by seven field investigators on some 3,000 schoolchildren scattered over the U. S. To keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons...
Such piecemeal laboratory tests however do not completely satisfy the conscientious manufacturer. He gives away footwear to people who are hardest on them-basketball players, garage and creamery workers, fishermen and miners, who will return the goods for examination when well worn. "At times," explained Tester Glancy, "men and young women are hired to walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each...
...test metal and a flywheel with a bump on its rim. A motor works the fly wheel up to a rim speed of 680 m.p.h. at which point the bump hits the metal sample a single blow, breaks it clean as a whistle. For his inventiveness as a tester, the assembled testers last week presented Mr. Mann with a gold medal...
...fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge, those tiny particles were driven into the steel wires, wedging apart the fine crystals of the annealed steel, causing...