Word: teste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday the regulars pounded the scrub line for five touchdowns and then yesterday afternoon were called upon to put their prowess to the test again. The result was more than an hour and a half of much regulated and much interrupted scrimmaging, with the University backs wading through sterner opposition than they had met the day before for two touchdowns. The score was 14 to 0, but the score meant very little since the location of the ball at the beginning of each offensive drive was determined entirely by the coaches. Anywhere from their own 20 to the Seconds...
...Upon one occasion, at least, Alfonso was put to an extreme test of courage. Deciding to visit a leper colony in the midst of almost inaccessible mountains, he rode on horseback for the better part of two days to the dread hamlet. There he received a great welcome. Never, in the en tire history of the colony, had a sovereign been so bold. Advancing through the street, the King was suddenly confronted by a leper, who ran out from a nearby building. Leering, his evil, malicious-looking face contorted in an ugly menace, he held out an infected hand...
...think we will all agree is the crucial test of a given state of civilization, is with us the weakest link in our chain of government. . . ." Mr. Untermyer then suggested spurs to "leaden-footed" U. S. justice-assessing dishonest litigants more heavily, taking action against perjurers...
...examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...
...cars. Never since familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked...