Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take? At Princeton, Harvard and Yale, where drinking has perhaps declined, drunkenness has apparently increased. Yet what drinking is done is done under cover. At Harvard the authorities bestir themselves to action invariably expulsion when an undergraduate awakens in the morning to find his name in the papers. The test is avoidance of publicity...
Douglas, Jr., had rather a thin and weakling play on which to test his histrionic sinews; yet, seasoned by a good cast and gloriously spared the sickly meringue of lovemaking, it sufficed...
MOSCOW ART THEATRE-One of the few good things that have come out of Russia since the Revolution, returning with new plays to test America's capacity for critical superlative. In Russian...
...Some test of earnest and sincere purpose of discipleship for belief and for life is reasonably required for admission to the Christian Society. Accordingly, profession of the Apostles' Creed, as a summary of Christian belief, stands and has stood from early days along with renunciation of evil and the promise of obedience to God's commandments as a condition of baptism...
...test referred to, Messrs. Terry and Young asked the 289 high school seniors to check from a list of 19 adjectives the five which they thought to be most strikingly characteristic of Japanese in the U. S. The adjectives finished in this order: Industrious...