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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well-bred two-year-olds are seldom raced until midsummer, except for occasional overnight races to test their ability. By last week the following had shown promise of keen competition in Saratoga's big two-year-old stakes: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Flight Command, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Now What, Arnold Hanger's Roman Flag, Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, and Millsdale Stable's Andy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Laguna | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Half a century ago a short, canny, sandy-haired young farmer named James Edward Rice decided to put his hens to a test. He built a sort of coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...year of violent change for 63-year-old Boss Groesbeck. Its turning point was the Supreme Court's decision against Electric Bond & Share in its test case on the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Groesbeck saw the handwriting on the wall, quit beating his head against it. Promptly, Bond & Share registered with SEC. Holding company service subsidiaries had frequently been charged with bleeding operating companies. So Bond & Share forfeited all income (about $800,000 a year) from its management firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Pat on the Back | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler Act (set up to protect small investors in reorganizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Accounting | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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