Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game and even then such are the fallacies due to the well-known principles of rationalizing and compensating, that a very precise questionnaire by experts is necessary to elicit reliable facts. Too much feeling enters into the question to settle if off hand by superficial questioning. The best test is behavior...
Commandant Billard admitted that the Coast Guard would encounter a severe test in keeping New York and other ports dry this winter. He declared, however, that the Coast Guard was ready to take up the Christmas challenge of the liquor ships and that a new 100-foot patrol boat was due to arrive in New York during this week. A dozen more are expected from the Great Lakes region, and will be brought through the Erie Canal before the ice forms...
...ankles with luminous paint, and placed her hands in those of an observer in the darkened room. An electric current was passed through the bodies of all the observers so that if any one broke his neighbor's grip, a bell would ring. Despite these and other "laboratory test" conditions, Margery was able to summon "Walter" (her brother, killed in an accident), who whistled, cracked jokes, pulled the professors by their forelocks, bantered them, played checkers with (and beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang...
...vibration of traffic in Manhattan, even at dead of night, is sufficient to disturb so delicate an instrument. The test of Einstein's theory will be made "somewhere in Illinois." Thereafter, Prof. Hartsough will enlarge his scales and attempt to weigh molecules and atoms; and will consider commercial offers from people eager to try his instruments (he has made three) in locating oil and minerals...
...Second, Mr. Baldwin can say 'Let them fight out their own problems,' an impractical suggestion which would result merely in a test of endurance, and in the meantime, more unemployment and a complete halt in production...