Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
...neurologist, was in Switzerland. Ludwig Halberstaedter was in Palestine, where the American Jewish Physicians' Committee and Hadassah (women's Zionist organiza- tion) hope to build a hospital and medical school. German refugees would have staff opportunities with both. Bernhard Zondek, Berlin gynecologist who helped devise a positive test for pregnancy, has invitations from Stockholm and Leyden. Safely back in Manhattan, where he is a naturalized U. S. citizen, is Gustav Bucky, Berlin cancer specialist. Another able medical emigre in Manhattan is Professor Leopold Lichtwitz, authority on metabolism. A group of Manhattan doctors is warily looking for other able...
...last feeble works was a Berceuse Heroïque, dedicated to Belgium's King Albert. In his illness Debussy had become obsessed by his hatred for Germany, by scorn for the way so many French musicians took Germans for their patterns. As a last pro- test he gave himself the title of Musicien Français. But France paid him no honors the day he rode to his grave. His only funeral march was played by Germany's Big Bertha...
...Washington last week Hamilton Watch Co.'s Research Director George Paul Luckey told the Horological Institute about the "time microscope," a device has contrived for making quick tests of a watch's accuracy. At split-second intervals a revolving reflector flashes a light on the watch's balance wheel at the centre of its backward & forward movement. If the balance wheel's speed is the same as the reflector's, the arm looks stationary (stroboscopic effect). Otherwise a double image appears and indicates that the watch must be readjusted. In a one-minute test...
...loss able student, the change will mean that his course examinations must be taken under a disadvantage, it any adequate preparation for the comprehensive test is to be made. For his more successful brother, it will provide a channel for the relaxed energies of third year work, a channel more satisfactory than the present attention to state adjective law with a view to the impending State Bar examinations. For both it will form a measure of general knowledge, and the necessity of integrating that knowledge along broad lines...