Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispered to Chief Justice Hughes. In 20 minutes a few decisions of little public interest had been read, Court orders issued providing for hearing next autumn of cases challenging PWA's loans to establish municipal power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand of a page...
...Pictures are too ephemeral in time and material to create an art. The test of an art is endurance. . . . The films have as much chance against the Theatre as a celluloid cat chasing an asbestos rat through Hell...
...behind was Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles in the car which Louis Meyer drove to victory last year. Third was Ted Horn, also of Los Angeles. To winner Shaw went some $40,000, mostly put up by automobile men who consider the race a good way to test their products...
...pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down to Bermuda from the U. S. to make the first test flight for this long-touted airway, there was no such trouble...
Next day the Cavalier flew back to Bermuda and the Bermuda Clipper flew to Baltimore to test the transatlantic air base now abuilding there. Passenger service is promised this month. Round-trip fare will probably be about twice that of a steamer ticket...