Word: probing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Dr. Thurstone, like a biochemist isolating vitamins, has been cracking up the human mind into its primary functions. He started with a tentative list of about half-a-dozen theoretical functions, created a set of 56 tests to probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...
Seven years ago the British Intelligence Department of the War Office ("The Best in the World") decided to get a line on members of the Friends of the Soviet Union, openly organized in London as a movement opposed to war and Fascism. Knowing how carefully Communists probe the antecedents of anyone they intend to make use of, Intelligence did not risk assigning to the case a professional operative with a past which could come to light. They approached an ordinary stenographer -or rather an exceptionally pretty one- who readily agreed to do her bit for King & Country, joined the Friends...
...inviting the State Labor Relations Broad to probe the University's conduct, the A.F. of L. has stirred Harvard's labor cauldron and heated its simmering waters to a new boiling point. But the charge that the University has fomented a company union and coerced employees into joining it is neither supported by the facts nor even thoroughly believed by the Federation itself...
...defending the continental home of the U. S. and adjacent waters," pointed out that "the idea of Germany, Italy or Japan sending a fleet of battleships conveying 500,000 soldiers across the seas in majestic array is simply fantastic. . . ." Gist of his advice to the Committee was to "probe to the very bottom" the commitments of foreign policy authorized by the President's armament program before endorsing his proposal...
...better job of labor reporting. Last month the National Labor Relations Board remarked that reports of labor news contrast markedly with ''inadequate reporting of labor disputes" before 1935, when the Wagner law was enacted. "Many of these [labor reporters]," said NLRB, "have been led to probe beneath the exterior dramatics of strike stories into conscientious study of the complicated social dilemma involved in every labor dispute, however small...