Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound. Says he: "It is the performer's business to get out of the way of the music." He picks his "varsity" choir first for knowledge of musical theory, then for ability to sight-read and lastly for voice. When most of his best singers flunked the theory test, he got his own teacher, Juilliard's Julius Herford, to teach them in one-night-a-week classes...
...vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...
...Bridges signed only 900 Hawaiian workers. But two years later, some 33,000 agricultural workers had joined his ranks. In a first test of strength he struck the sugar plantations, tied them up for 79 days, almost wrecked the industry by ordering his strikers not to maintain its vital irrigation system. His victory was small: he won an 18½?-an-hour increase, to which the owners had agreed a month before the end of the strike...
Palmiro Togliatti's Italian Communists last week decided to test their muscles. For the experiment they chose Rome itself. The action consisted of a taut parade of 30,000 Communist partisans, followed by a general strike-all painstakingly stage-set as a pageant of Communist power. But the action drifted away from the script; toward the end there were touches of Mardi gras and, finally, Italian Communism's worst humiliation...
...test was passed triumphantly by the professor himself. With hands, feet and neck specially protected, he was wheeled into the hotbox when its temperature stood at 230°. He stayed inside for 15½ minutes while the heat climbed to 262°. His face turned lobster-red when the hot air hit it, but that was about the only abnormal effect the heat had on the professor...