Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Next he asked for twelve volunteers in a Mississippi prison, who would undergo a test. The test was alluring. He was going to put them in a house apart and feed them for six months on biscuits, mush. rice, syrup, gravy, sugar, sweet potatoes. The prisoners were enthusiastic until, six months later, they developed pellagra. They were cured with milk and meat, then pardoned...
Died. Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, 35, second ranking Canadian ace (52 enemy planes officially credited out of 68 shot down); when his new plane crashed in a test flight at Rockliffe Airdrome, Ottawa...
...greatest number of forced jumps to his credit-four. Before his initiation into the Caterpillars, he had made eleven exhibition jumps. In 1925, during his Army Air Corps training, he collided in midair with a classmate's ship. His second forced jump came the same year, test-flying a new ship at St. Louis. He jumped at 300 ft. altitude, landed too fast, dislocated his shoulder. In 1926, pushing blindly through fogs with airmail, looking for a rift to get down to land, he made his third and fourth jumps, the last from an altitude...
...Victoria Cross- Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, second-ranking Canadian Air Force ace-ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having shot down 68 enemy planes before they...
...questions such as these were asked in three hour examinations there could be no objection, for they avoid the Scylla of calling forth a mass, of unassimilated fact. Unfortunately this test has gone to the other extreme and fallen into the Charybdis of asking for too much in a limited time, thus emasculating whatever virtue it might have otherwise had. With this glaring defect as a drawback it is still impossible to form a sane opinion of student ability...