Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
...believing sleep a waste of time and nothing but a habit, persuaded psychiatrists to give him a no-sleep endurance lest. He was not watched constantly but had to turn a watchman's clock every ten minutes. He dozed off seven times during the ten-day test and his naps totaled about five hours...
...races Saturday will open this year's intercollegiate rowing season on the Charles and will provide the first real test of the Crimson navy. Much hard work with many time trials has gone far to advance the 1936 shell over its immediate predecessor, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Harvard's first eight will have regained some of the sprint racing punch it lacked so markedly last spring...
...afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...
...presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...