Word: tested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have long theorized over the hybridization of Hominidae and their cognate Catarrhini (turned-down noses) the Simiidae. Such cross-breeding would be a test of evolution. If children resulted, that would show that the two anthropoid groups were nearer each other than evolutionists at present believe...
...Liberty) steak, beefsteaks, stewed beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress of digestion...
...present time, there does not seem to be any method for determining from preliminary test whether a cable will stand up in service or not. In other words, the cable is the weakest link in the modern power system. Moreover, cables have not been designed to operate on voltages commensurate with those employed for overhead lines...
...quite possible that it is necessary to be absent from a class immediately preceding an examination, so that if there is to be any change of time, the obvious result is that the test is missed and the student is left to the mercies of the instructor. Frequently the instructor himself makes a mistake in the announcement, which, if provisions were properly made whereby all examinations were posted in the CRIMSON, would not have the disastrous effects it now has. If it is necessary to give hour examinations, it might be well to make some arrangement so that...
When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...