Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced by the U. S. Bureau of Standards. It is said to possess many advantages over the usual magnetic type of ship's compass, which not only has to be corrected by sun and stars, but errs with the roll and pitch of the vessel. When, during a test, the ship's compass oscillated two degrees, the new instrument was found to be free from "roll and pitch errors." It also moved freely and without oscillation when a sudden change of course was made...
...course, a reversal of his former attitude and precisely how far his followers go in supporting him was not known. It is certain, however, that secession will not be put forward by a Hertzog Government, because the terms of the Nationalist- Labor compact expressly forbid any attempt to test the question of a secession of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal from the Commonwealth...
...feet and when he landed stiff and frost-bitten from the intense cold many experts were of the opinion that he had actually gone higher than the Frenchman. In addition to a few other records, he has the reputation of being one of the Army's most reliable test pilots, who can take up a new ship and come down and tell designers exactly what's wrong and what should be changed. This wonderful career is not an accident. Macready is a most pertinent example of mens sana in corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot...
...able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will not last. It is too much to expect every artist to be a chemist who can test his own pigments. ... So far as our resources have permitted we have undertaken the pioneering work in this direction...
...further premeditated test of the vessel's powers, another heavy fog was encountered on the way back over Trenton. The ship lost her bearings for a short time, sailed out some four miles to sea, but recovered her course shortly afterwards and reached Lakehurst in the early morning, having made a round trip of 1,000 miles in something under 24 hours...