Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills and cadenzas...
Mary Moore was nervous but she clutched her chiffon handkerchief and met the test bravely. Her voice is small but it is smooth, appealing. Unlike many a coloratura she was faithful to pitch throughout the laciest passages, took her top notes truly. In appearance the Met's youngest singer is as Irish as her ancestors who, she says, "were kings and poets and all." Her father is an employe of Anaconda Van Service. An uncle, Joseph Eustace, who encouraged her from the start, works for the New York City Government...
...Baltimore, Glenn Luther Martin's gigantic new Clipper No. 7, laid up for three months because of ice conditions in Chesapeake Bay, got off on a test flight with the biggest load (51,000 lb.) ever carried by a U. S.-built aircraft...
...huge aircraft. Next day when crowds flocked to see it assembled, police and a corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films from snapshotters' cameras. By the time Donald Douglas' big secret was safely launched on a test-flight, nothing had been learned of it except that it was a huge flying-boat and bore the name XP3D...