Word: teste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English boys, the usual test is the legality of the execution of bewhiskered Charles...
...test came last week. Armed with a court decision, police dispersed picket lines at three mills (Whitman, Nonquit, Nashawena). By afternoon of the same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
...appointees of President Harding who had stood the test of time. Born in Tennessee, he was the first citizen of that state to win a Rhodes scholarship. At 27, as president of Kentucky Wesleyan College, he selected chairs for greybeards. In Florida, he will manipulate a university, adequately supported by the state, including schools as diversified as journalism and pharmacy. He is young enough to mingle with undergraduates, old enough to be a stubborn organizer...
...Reardon, Al Smith musketeer, inspired the display. The Lower Wall Street Business Men's Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test of an oil well owned by the Skelly Oil Co. in the Hendrick Pool, Winkler County, Texas. Estimating its flow at 900 barrels an hour, officials hailed the gusher as the country's largest. Memorable was the rise of retail beef prices in Chicago, bringing porterhouse...