Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Having received a few copies of TIME I am pleased to be able to say that I am favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. I gave TIME a rigid test but your news magazine stood it nobly. I purchased 14 newspapers - a few of them being our local newspapers, the remainder of them, newspapers representing all the news types in New York City. I also read the last issues of Harper's, Forum and Critical Survey, in an effort to see just how much you eliminated in your process of condensation and just what your rejected...
Divertissement. To test the repeated British statement that the Admiralty's demands were "absolute"?that is to say not "relative" to U. S. naval strength?Mr. Gibson suddenly proposed last week an arrangement under which the British demands for 7,500-ton cruisers would be largely met, but the U. S. would have a slight supremacy in 10,000-ton cruisers...
...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...
...crew, was born in Tviet Hopedale, Norway, received his flying training at the Norwegian Naval Academy. It was he who suggested to Commander Byrd that he use skis instead of wheels on his polar plane. Lieut. Balchen came to the U. S. in 1926 to serve as test pilot and engineer in Anthony Fokker's company...
...bitterest test comes to her when Gerry returns, years after her second marriage. Then she says: "You will ask-all men do-and whatever you ask I'll do for you." Yet he guesses that away from the ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted...