Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday, April 19, began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...M.I.T. race will be the first test for the first-year eight, and, besides a race with Cornell on the following Saturday, will be the only outside competition for the 1932 shell in preparation for the Yale race...
...bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little in my mouth to get the taste, and then spit it out. Incidentally America has some...
...same time that Coach Mitchell's University nine will be making its first home appearance of the year tomorrow Coach Davidson. Freshman mentor, will start his 1932 baseball team against St. Anselms College in their initial test of the season. The game will be played at 4 o'clock on the Freshman Diamond...
...pounds were divided into first and second boats a few days before the start of the recess; their races with the schoolsboys on Wednesday put them to their first test with outside competition. Rowing over a Henley course on the Housatonic, the first shell was nosed out by Kent by one-fifth of a second time. The Harvard men, outweighed some 20 pounds apiece, got off to a good start and at one period held a one-length lead. Approaching the finish line, however. Kent put on a spurt which carried them a foot ahead of their opponents to victory...