Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus began the second direct test-at-arms between Japanese and Chinese since 1894. The Japanese, who aspire to rule the Far East as Britain has ruled Europe since Elizabeth's day, by fragmentation of the neighboring continent, had grown frightened of China's growing political unity and economic strength. Under Strong Man Chiang Kaishek, who the previous December had formed a tacit anti-Japanese front with the powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched...
Prepared by ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University and ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education (Copyright, 1939, by Time...
EXPLANATION This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street...
...controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...
...years Miss Louise Omwake, a psychology teacher at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, N. J., has tried to find out how honest ordinary people are. She devised a test, gave it to 198 girl students at her college. To encourage candor, she let them answer anonymously. Last week, in School and Society, Miss Omwake reported that "honesty appears to correlate with convenience." Guided by circumstances, not by a consistent moral principle, the same students seemed to be sometimes honest, sometimes not. Some findings...