Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
...Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...
...sliding theory is not fantastic and merits testing. Last week, Major William Bowie, chief of the U. S. Geodetic Survey, indicated how the test could and probably would be made...
...feeling which such statements engender in professional supporters of Prohibition was perhaps typically expressed by Dr. B. E. P. Prugh, national chairman of the Prohibition Party, in a letter to Mr. Andrews: I am frank to say that I have been unable to convince myself that "the acid test of enforcement," inaugurated by the Administration is a genuine effort to make good, but do not mean for a moment to question your own sincerity as to your part...
...being compact with greater en- durance than big men. It is not always the case. Last week Gerald L. Patterson of Australia, a tall and sturdy fellow whose white flannels are better tailored, whose blazer is gaudier, than those of any other gentleman in tennis, indulged in an endurance test with wiry Takeichi Harada of Japan, discomfited him, 5-7, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, to win the Longwood Bowl...