Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...named it "Glmite" - similar to the famed German bombs which in Barcelona are supposed to have killed people a quarter-mile away (TIME, March 25). Army and Navy men remained skeptical, but last week both Army and Navy came around; agreed to formulate in writing terms for a scientific test to prove conclusively the effectiveness of Glmite, promised to pay the costs of the experiment...
Turning to affairs more connected with college life, the undergraduates quizzed most nearly agreed when 93.1 per cent of them favored a pre-marital blood test. Over 85 per cent favored R. O. T. C. training in colleges, and over three-fifths thought that sex education courses should be made compulsory, an almost identical fraction desiring the abolition of compulsory class attendance...
...Wednesday, with ace flinger Al Hatch doing only a four inning stretch. He will be ready to extend his personal string of victories over Harvard tomorrow. Coach Nash has not been impressed with the hitting power his men pack and looks to the game tomorrow as the first test of the year...
...believe we are about to see a decisive test of the strength of the British fleet in the face of the superior German air force. It is very possible that Nazi bombers will be able to prevent British transports from reaching Norwegian shores...
...John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still probably no high brow U. S. music that can be identified as such in a blindfold test...