Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest reader ever tested, an 8-year-old high-school boy who evidently had an unusually large macula (a yellow spot in the retina, most sensitive point of vision), in one test read 2,202 words a minute with excellent comprehension...
...territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions [colonies]. Accordingly it requires no great exercise of the imagination to conjecture that Hitler at his meeting with Viscount Halifax will test the ground for some such policy." To the Chamberlainian Daily Telegraph'?, sharp rebuke for printing this rumor, the Edenesque Yorkshire Post sharply retorted that its information was from a "reliable source...
Clippers. The first fact it calls attention to is the safety and reliability of over-ocean travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost...
Married. Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 40, onetime husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to Mary Kirk Raff ray, 41, childhood friend of his onetime wife; by special permission after a judge waived Connecticut's five-day notice and blood test laws; in Fairfield. Mrs. Raffray, who introduced Ship-Broker Simpson and Wallis Warfield (then Mrs. Earl W. Spencer) in 1925, was divorced three weeks ago from Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, Manhattan insurance broker...
...official average time required to get the books is irrelevant. The point of our editorial was to prove that during the busy hours there are many delays which could be remedied by enlarging the stack staff, not that that the average time is too long. When a second test was made last Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 by sending a dozen call-slips to various parts of the library, it was found that no book came within twelve minutes, one was returned within thirteen, and the rest required eighteen. We believe such experiences are common at the delivery desk...