Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Table Tennis (Ping Pong) experts at last have the opportunity to test their metal in tournament play. Every Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock there will be a Handicap Tournament open to all members of the University. The meets will take place at Marvy Cowles new courts, lcoated at 24 Holyoke Street...
...last secret practice before the team's first major test against Army, Dick Harlow continued to apply the pressure yesterday...
...Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home. "I'll hold out faithful to the end," he gasped. Last week...
...flyer who thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying...
...upon a circulatory system with not merely a single heart but five pairs of these organs through which circulates blood containing both corpuscles and hemoglobin. Except for its shape, there is nothing which under any consideration could be used as an excuse for taking such an animal as a test object for ascaricides, especially when one can obtain with great ease pig Ascaris, which are morphologically indistinguishable from the human Ascaris...