Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Holt & Co., not TIME, has already decided to issue a compact annual world history to be written by Alvin C. Eurich & Elmo C. Wilson, compilers of TIME'S semi-annual current events test. First volume, 1936, will be available in February...
...inexplicable. But the best of these "tricks" was one which was done before a group of us in Madras a few years ago. The particular performer was not fully of the holy man type of the person concerned in the levitation. However, he did something which was fairly a test of his capacity, for he drank a teaspoonful of undiluted nitric acid. It was not his nitric acid, but some supplied from our college laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful of water and then poured down his throat the nitric acid (our own students on all sides...
...measures taken to transform homely Barbara Phillips into glamorous Barbara Phillips (see cuts). First a professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long...
...modern history of syphilis began in 1905 when Zoologist Fritz Schaudinn of Germany discovered the specific cause of infection. One year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
...other hand the trouble with the unrestricted admission plan is that first year classes will become too large for efficient instruction. Investigations have shown that the college record method of selection is the best, and the pre-legal test second...