Word: testings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen was too busy for speculation. Two days later he clambered into a plane at Minneapolis, took off for this week's test in Nebraska...
...presence of electricity in animal brains has been known since 1874; variations in the brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...
...original note came from Subject R, whose reasons were: (a) Money (side bets); (2) Waste time between race results; (c) Waste time; (d) Objective test of motor skill...
Never before had Manhattan's Whitney Museum held a retrospective show of a living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
...piety. She gave allegiance to no church ("Jesus," she said, "seems to me . . . perhaps, not the most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral. She, who insisted that all earthly things stand up to scientific test, abhorred the intellectual theologians who sought to "prove" the existence of God-an approach which she believed served only to "debase the purpose" of faith. Sidney never prayed; but Beatrice was certain that he, too, believed...