Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last weekend, A. R. P. News readers got a little clearer view of the shape of things that may come. Britain staged its first large-scale blackout, including almost all southern England except London. Planes flew in from the coast to test the skill of volunteer "spotters" and searchlight crews. On vacant lots bombs were exploded to give the volunteer firemen, decontaminators and first-aid crews practice in rushing through darkened streets to danger spots. Observers in the air watched for lights that would be a giveaway to enemy aviators. The blackout, pronounced a success, was on an entirely volunteer...
...recording your answers, do not make any marks at all opposite the questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed alongside of the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided...
After you have taken the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous TIME Test College Students score have averaged 58; TIME Reader scores have averaged...
...This test is given under the honor system - no peeking...
...literature of flying there are few literary books. Among the few: Cecil Lewis' Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...