Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear my personal fate with resignation ... I do not care what my foes say about me. I do not recognize them as my judges. . . . He (God) knows why He subjects me to this test. I shall bear everything with patience and await whatsoever God still holds in store...
...This test of evolution would be decisive only in the event that pregnancy, whether productive of healthy offspring or not, could be induced. If it could, fresh and final evidence would be established that humans and anthropoids belong to a common genus of animal life. To be complete, the hybrid fertilization would have to be attempted upon females of both species, human and ape. Fully formed, healthy offspring, if they resulted, would not be regarded as "missing links," but as living proof that apes and men are species as closely allied as horses and asses which can be hybridized...
...time trial of Saturday was regarded here as a good test. Two of the timers caught the crew at 19.46 and Head Coach at 19.50, the time that was first given out. The average of 19.18 is only one second slower than the time made by the Yale University crew which rowed 15 minutes later...
Playing three games within the next five days, the University baseball team faces the hardest test of the year in its efforts to round out what is probably the most successful season in the past five years...
...examination which would test the student's intelligence and ability to apply his knowledge is a product of the technical schools and certainly is a distinct improvement over the examination in use today in other lines of endeavor. Until examinations are given in such a spirit, until they become useful rather than artificial, until they serve as a test for understanding rather than the capacity to cram, they are one of the gravest defects in America's sieve-like educational system. Penn State Collegian. June...