Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...
...there is not relay meet with M. I. T. this year; the team will have its first test in the K. of C. meet on January 22, when the University and Freshman quartets will face Hole Cross...
...ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...annual K. of C. meet in Boston will be the first to test the University track-men, who will run in most of the important meets of the Eastern indoor season. Last year, in addition to annexing the indoor title, Captain Tibbets' men scored a decisive victory in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell. Prospects for repeating this triumph are bright...
...male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage...