Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Jersey Cattle Club was celebrating the biggest news yet: a new world's butterfat champion. Six-year-old, 1,000-lb. Sybil Tessie Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced 995.9 lbs. in the same time. Proud Jersey cattle-clubmen pointed out that the Holstein was milked four times a day; Lorna, three...
...been brought up. These investigators then calculate correlations between particular personality traits and happiness. One of their most notable pronouncements is that people who like comic strips are happy in marriage more often than those who do not. From a number of items such as this, psychologists make a test with which to rate an individual's or a couple's chance for happiness...
Calculated by its procedures to make a lot of money, "After the Test Pilot", otherwise known as "Too Hot to Handle", will make a lot of money. This is primarily because it duos Mr. Gable and Miss Loy, who once again give sterling performances of the devil-may-care variety. This is also because, in its own right, it is an amusing, a genuinely exciting picture. The plot, which concerns an ace newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon...
Next experiments will probably test the power of Dr. Wyckoff's chick vaccine to confer immunity on human beings. Further research may also determine whether some equine virus is responsible for a large proportion of human encephalitis...
...Simpson's tests were intended to show not only how much but how good an influence discussion has. He concluded that a properly conducted "bull session'' has a good effect, for after his students had discussed works of art, their ratings of those works agreed more closely with experts' opinions. Few subjects realized their opinions had been changed by discussion. One girl told Dr. Simpson she was still of the same mind as before. Yet on her second test she unconsciously swung 17 points toward a consensus of experts...