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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warming things up for Washington's Birthday in the Indoor Athletic Building pool, the Yardling swimmers meet St. George's best at 2:30 o'clock, before the toughest test for the Varsity to date in the evening...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Middie Team To Face Ulen Mermen Here | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

...face of the matter, financial success should be proportionate to the excellence of the productions. But the value of the student body as an audience will be at test no less than the worth of the two theater groups. Having expressed their preference in the veteran group's poll last month for Shaw as an author and for English satire and sophisticated comedy as a category, students will get a compromise from the veterans in the non-comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

...test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

Winthrop House assembled a 110-man quorum last night in the first of a College wide series of Student Council nomination meetings, and successfully put the new constitution's elective system to its first test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Gets Quorum For Initial Nominations | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

...ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a baseball pitch (about 65 m.p.h.), hit the ground just in front of the batsman, where he would have to hit it on the pickup. England's lead-off man blocked it off to one side. The fourth of the Test Matches, the World Series of cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Like Croquet | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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