Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second system, used by Yale, Columbia, and others, is to require a stiff pre-legal test, in addition to a satisfactory college record. The great danger in this is that it is extremely difficult before a man has had any legal work to tell whether he will make a success...
...customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according to his irrepressible wife last week, "would be good if he would only practice." Ormandy 's strongest test came with Schubert's Seventh Symphony which, though it left him dripping with perspiration, showed a surprising authority over the Stokowski players, meticulous care for detail and phrasing, a lyric gift keenly adapted to Schubert's own sense of song...
...purchased by IGA wholesalers through IGA "Headquarters," which charges manufacturers the regular brokerage commission. "Headquarters" has not gone into manufacturing, is unlikely to do so. It buys more food from U. S. manufacturers and farmers than any other wholesale or chain organization except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. To test, ship and merchandise this food it employs 150 people at the Chicago office, and at branches in Seattle, New York, San Francisco...
...gallant gentleman (from the Harvard stands) who dashed across the muddy field in pursuit of a lady's umbrella. With fearlessness that called for cheers from the entire audience, he saved it from the threatening advances of Jim (Jim's only display of emotion all afternoon.) But his hardest test was yet to come. Apparently unversed in the art of dousing a spinnaker, this hero attempted to close the object while still facing full into the gale. Result: one umbrella, inside out. Undaunted, he wheeled around, let the wind restore it to its original shape, closed it and returned triumphantly...
Fielding a first-rate eleven for the first time in years, M.I.T. is expected to give the Varsity soccer team a severe test in their annual engagement on the Business School Field this afternoon, while Crimson and Gray Freshman booters also open play here at 12.15 o'clock...