Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many men were killed, how many trapped and perhaps dying slowly, it was impossible to tell. Perhaps 200 men had been in the workings when some improbable spark ignited the lurking mine gas. Rescuers pressed in, passing by corpses, to look for survivors, carrying canaries to test the air. At the shaft mouths, miners' families waited in silence. A score of bodies were taken out, then a dozen more. Rescued men told their stories. The neighborhood and the industry mourned, condoled, tried to forget...
...John Pierpont Morgan and sister of Banker John Pierpont Morgan, 60, in an advertisement in a morning newspaper. Miss Morgan was publicly endorsing Old Gold ("Not a cough in a carload") cigarets; that is, she had put her signature to a statement alleging that she had taken the blindfold test, smoked four brands of cigarets and found that "the smoothness" of one cigaret was "so obvious." That cigaret turned out to be Old Gold...
...they, and he, wanted more dealers' helps. So President H. T. Ewald of Campbell-Ewald Co., Chevrolet's able advertising agency, opened a Chevrolet salesroom in Detroit on his own account and last week with his sleeves figuratively rolled up was operating "a proving ground to test actual merchandizing problems . . . so the agency can grasp from experience the situations in which automobile dealers become involved. . . . We don't expect to have model salesmen or angels in our service department, nor do we intend to dress them up in a lot of pretty white suits. We want...
Laurence Dickey '30, who has been at how in all the preliminary brushes, as a result of recent developments, appears destined to yield his how oar to De Wolf Hubbard '29, of last year's jayvee crew, who is being given a thorough test...
...Passed Senator Norris' resolution asking the Supreme Court to permit special counsel to intervene in the valuation test case of the St. Louis and O'Fallon Railroad...