Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without the tutorial system general examinations are but a test of knowledge acquired during a frenzied year . . . of haphazard cramming of a multitude of facts and general conceptions...
...failing sight, appears the darkness of the shadow of the valley? The ebbing away of blood in the human body has no more marked a relation to its welfare than the disintegration of character has upon a people. In the coming century, American civilization must meet its highest test-the test of whether or not it has followed those beacon lights of personal character which our New England forbears lifted on high for the guidance of our people...
...organization desired to make a test of the right of peaceful assemblage in Paterson in the face of Chief Tracey's arbitrary and unlawful stand in locking the silk workers out of their hall. The indictment was unwarranted and farfetched, resting as it did upon an ancient statute of 1796, under which no trial had been held in all the 128 years it has been on the books. We are paying a high price for our victory, but free speech still comes high in the United States...
...enterprising and Germanophile New York American immediately put the matter to the test by cabling the ex-Kaiser and asking him if there was any truth in the report that he had requested Hindenburg to accept nomination. The following reply was received...
...Bromsulphalein," a dye, to test the liver's action.?Dr. E. C. White, Johns Hopkins University...