Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the disaster Engineer King, dazed but unhurt, was sitting on his seat when an Erie official climbed into the cab ordered him to test his brakes. They were in good order. At the investigation that followed King admitted he saw the signals, knew No. 8 was just ahead, put on speed against the rules. Accused of "assuming too much," he replied: "Everyday service led me to assume. It made me a little bold. I was taking a chance and going a little too fast. . . . But the collision wouldn't have occurred if No. 8's flagman...
...prevent further spread of Graphium ulmi. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, whose John Samuel Houser presided over last week's National Shade Tree Conference, has established a central diagnostic laboratory for elm blight. Twigs of suspected trees are sent there. Forty hours produce a definite test. A Cleveland elm was the first U. S. tree discovered to be infected. That was in 1930. Now the elms of all the Northeastern States are threatened. In New York and New Jersey 234 elms have been pruned, 126 cut down and burned. The possibility of American elms disappearing...
...last three years. Trying to win the U. S. title as well, she failed in 1931 and 1932. Last week she started out by winning the medal with a 76, three under women's par, a record qualifying score for the national. She met her first real match test in Charlotte Glutting, the New Jersey State champion who put her out last year. By winning that match, 2 & I, the British champion reached a semi-final round that was unusually perfect. It contained, besides Miss Wilson, the other three favorites, Misses Van Wie, Hicks and Orcutt...
When R. Jordarki Kuparant made the first emergency parachute jump in 1880 when his balloon caught fire over Poland, he was a hero. So was U.S. Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust...
...ordered dancing girls to cover their nakedness. On a second visit he found the Fair audiences applauding the change. Said he: "After all, the general public is pretty decent." Public decency was now being put to another test as the coverings were stripped off Mayor Kelly's private finances. Even his friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary...