Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic Steel with whom S. W. O. C. had not even been able to reach an oral agreement. Mr. Girdler's repeated insistence that he would never sign an agreement with the "irresponsible, racketeering" C. I. O. unless forced to, seemed on its way to a final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held the $343,000,000 Republic Steel Corp., third largest in the nation, in flagrant violation of the act. Growing out of the strike...
...length of schooling. Thus 10% of high-school seniors know more than the average college senior and 22% know more than the average sophomore. A study of a typical college showed that, if degrees were granted on the basis of general knowledge, at the time of the test 28% of the senior class, 21% of the juniors, 19% of the sophomores and 15% of the freshmen would have been entitled to a degree...
...projection of the speeches was not considered satisfactory, and the finals were held in Memorial Hall, which, because of its size, is a greater test of a speaker's ability. Frederick C. Packard '21, assistant professor of Public Speaking, advised the committee on the choice...
Some years ago psychologists strenuously quarreled over John B. Watson's theories of behaviorism, now largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles...
Even Heavyweight von Helmholtz was unable to explain what made the simplest wheels of a musical composition go round. But ever since his time rubber-gloved scientists have been trying to get music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore...