Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deportation of non-Mexican priests and nuns, begun a fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 22), was proceeding as the week opened, and in a test case? one Mexican court held that this action by the Calles Government was strictly constitutional...
...Prague, to observe his demonstration of a device for separating two radio messages sent simultaneously by different transmitters set at the same frequency. A wave-metre showed that the transmitters were on identical wave lengths. The "beat" note or interference whistle was heard in the receiver before the test. Then Skala attached one of his devices to each transmitter and one to the receiver. With a switch at the receiving end he was able to "cut out" either transmitter at will, bringing the other one in clearly without interference. He would not divulge details, but indicated that he had mathematically...
MICROBE HUNTERS?Paul de Kruif?Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Dr. Kruif takes a dozen bacteriologists and from a thorough knowledge of their contributions (and with perhaps as thorough knowledge of the buying public) creates of all scientists a composite dervish, solitary, crotchety, whirling now at this experiment, now at that test tube, at this insect, at that spectator...
...over the rich notes. When one rose is about to flower and one tree about to bear, whole gardens of novelties and orchards of variations are already in bud. Time is not left to determine whether the apple, apart from its fractional refinements, is socially palatable, much less to test its elder worth in the press of speculation...
...entered the War. The boy became test pilot and instructor. The U. S. started an Air Mail Service. The boy entered and flew between New York and Chicago. Night flights were started between Chicago and New York...