Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bustling little Sociology Professor Ernest Watson Burgess adjusted his spectacles and began to read a long, technical paper to his class at the University of Chicago. As the 51-year-old bachelor proceeded, his marriageable students became more and more attentive. When he finished, he had given them a test-proof formula for choosing a wife or husband, for predicting whether a marriage would be successful...
...Test. Having developed a method of measuring success after the ceremony, Professor Burgess proceeded to design an objective test to predict success or failure before marriage. This he did by examining significant facts in the background of the successful couples. Good and bad matrimonial risks, according to Professor Burgess...
...regarded as "sissy." He began to experiment with a jumpless game. Four years ago he tried it out, got Southern California's Coach Sam Barry to join him in a crusade for his new style of play. Last year while the Big Ten gave the new game a test and others followed suit, John Bunn took his boys on a transcontinental tour during Christmas vacation, watched them beat every team they met-both with and without his own rules. In Manhattan, playing under the national rules, his team broke the two-year (43-game) winning streak of Long Island...
Last fall Consolidated Edison Co. of New York pondered selling some $80,000,000 in securities, part new money, part refunding. These plans were curtailed by market conditions, but last week hard-headed Morgan Stanley & Co. decided to test the temperature of financial waters with a $30,000,000 issue of Consolidated Edison debentures. Morgan Stanley is the underwriting offshoot of J. P. Morgan & Co. and any work that is done in its chaste Georgian office is pretty sure to be well done. Last week proved no exception. Issued at 101¼, the bonds promptly went to a premium...
...digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas of "com-munism," "democracy," "capitalism," says Chase, would...