Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read in the newspapers that the planes had taken off from aircraft carriers stationed "somewhere to the southeast," gathered without difficulty that the attack was "as if" from a U. S. battle fleet in the Pacific. Japanese aviation men pointed out that the war games were equally a test of Tokyo's defense against an air attack from Vladivostok. War Minister Sadao Araki said that their purpose was the "spiritual education of the people...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...last week Labor was not only reconciled to but jubilant over Miss Perkins. She had clearly showed her stripe when she stood up for mill workers at the steel code hearing before NRA (TIME, Aug. 7). That hearing was to have been the first important test of the union v. non-union issue. Madam Secretary Perkins had gone in person to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Baltimore to talk with employes. She returned to Washington prepared to make vigorous war on the steel industry's proposed company unions-''War bridegrooms" she called them, harking back...
...keep open until Sept. 30. For months His Grace has been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace...
...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...