Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardling starters will be Maurice Rice, Red Navin, Jack Penson, Ed Buckley, and Joe Romano. Other Freshmen are certain to see much service, however, because Stahley has not yet had the opportunity to test his men thoroughly...
...most desirable changes, Dean Hudnut's office announces, is the reduction of the length of the combined curricula of college plus profess- ional school from 71/2 to 61/2 years. The decrease of the time required for the training of an architect is making it possible to test the qualifications of students for professional studies while they are still in college...
Premier Edouard Daladier denounced the strike as "political," a test not only of his administration but of the French democracy's ability to withstand minority pressure in a crisis. He believed he could beat the strike and maintain his Government's prestige if he could maintain the public services, so he invoked a statute on the books since July and militarized all transport, communications, war industries and the Government service. He also served notice that workers who obeyed Leon Jouhaux's orders to report for work in military plants and then "fold arms" would be jailed...
...instigated by the police with a view towards possible increased revenue in the future. For compliance with the law merely involves getting a free permit from the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, issued on proof that a car is properly insured and that the operator has passed a license test similar to the one given by Massachusetts. Certainly sufficient insurance and a tested driver are desirable and necessary for any automobile driven on the teeming highways of the Commonwealth...
...specimen of rock under test is placed in a thick steel cylinder. An hydraulic confining pressure is applied through a liquid, or at very high pressures through lead. The highest confining pressure used are about 300,000 pounds per square inch. In addition, a direct, differential pressure is exerted on the specimen by a steel piston. Different pressure used attain more than 1.500,000 pounds per square inch...