Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...exam which this year's candidates for Class 1 must take before June will test emergency maneuvers, sideslips, climbing turns, recovery from stalls and spins, simulated forced landings, and procision landings within 300 feet of an imaginary line on the field...
...oversight or bad reporting that TIME failed to note that Miss Jacqueline Cochran flew an experimental military pursuit airplane, owned and designed by Republic Aviation Corp., when she flew three weeks ago, under rigid test conditions, faster than man (or woman) ever has done before on a 2,000 kilometer course...
Although many researchers are seeking a universal chemical test to show up the presence of early cancer, "there is no rational basis for the hope that any such test will ever be found. The early cancer process is local . . . and there is certainly no evidence to show that it excites any specific reaction in the body or disseminates any peculiar substances into the blood...
...Hambidge cites the case of a high-school graduate who was refused admission to a college because he flunked an English entrance examination and an oral intelligence test. Later someone investigated his high-school record, learned that at twelve he had read all of Shakespeare's plays and written an essay on Shakespeare in Politics; at 13 he read Hugo, Balzac, Molière and Racine (in French) and wrote book reviews for a local newspaper; at 14 he learned Spanish by himself and translated three French comedies into English; at 15 he wrote a book on geography...
...basic fact about aircraft manufacture is that no customer ever gets an up-to-date airplane. By the time the first ships of any order are delivered, a better plane is under test, a still better one is taking shape on the drawing boards. But to foreign purchasers of U. S.-made military planes this principle of initial obsolescence has long been complicated by a Federal regulation that made their buys relatively more out-of-date than a motorcar with a floorboard gearshift is in 1940. The rule: no aircraft type could be sold for export until it had been...