Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money than it was worth. Somehow $300 was borrowed, issues were brought out, and Munsey, working 18 hours a day, produced his classic 6,000-word serial, "Afloat in a Great City." As Munsey told the story: "I wanted something to advertise and I put my faith to the test to the extent of ten thousand dollars...
...contest with "Varsity" on Wednesday night in the Boston Arena looms as the most severe test of the season. The Toronto squad has been characterized by hockey authorities who have witnessed the Northerners in their overwhelming victories of the last week, as "the best hockey team ever assembled." Coach Smythe has a team of veterans who have played several seasons together and have worked up a system of team play which has proved uncanny in its effectiveness. The Toronto puck chasers have won from Boston College twice by 6 to 1 and 5 to 1 scores, from Boston University with...
...said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among his test, tubes and retorts, he turned a haggard face upon reporters: "My whole work of 17 years will fall to pieces in the near future unless financial aid is forthcoming...
...House in passing out committee places the regular Republicans ousted the insurgents from all strategic places. The test put to the insurgents was: a) Had they voted for Longworth for Speaker, and b) had they voted with the regular Republicans to change the rule on discharging committees? They had not. The sword severed them from most of their committee places. The group from Wisconsin suffered most heavily...
...Germany's recovery is not fully traveled. The critical years, when the total allotments will reach 2,500,000,000 gold marks annually, begin Sept. 1, 1926. . . . The operations of the first year, under an 800,000,000 gold mark external loan, have not been so much a test of German capacity to pay as of German economy to adjust itself to a return to stable conditions...