Word: tests
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From early morning until late afternoon, a horde of men trooped into 23 schoolhouses to struggle with the Commission's first test (mental). Long lines of candidates shivered in the March wind. By nightfall, 75,000 men, second largest number in U. S. Civil Service history (100,000 took a U. S. customs inspector's examination a year and a half ago) had been examined...
Paul Littlefield who performed very creditably against M. I. T., will be in the number three epee slot today. The rest of all three teams will be regular first-stringers. This is the last test for the Peroymen before the Yale meet on Wednesday...
...Army in a real test of might, last week Joseph Stalin would have had to go 35 miles north of Leningrad. If he went to Leningrad, if he watched any of his bright-cheeked soldiers floundering through the snow on the Karelian Isthmus, no word of it leaked out: Leningrad is the only one of the world's ten largest cities without a foreign correspondent. But one thing was certain: that to celebrate its 22nd anniversary last week the Red Army did not take Viipuri. If Joseph Stalin was disappointed, that was nothing to the chagrin of his best...
...test the value of Professor Sorokin's point of view, we might apply it to America's attitude and reaction to war. Empirically war has been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants...
...This test is given under the honor system - no pecking...