Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest of the country, those of the Pacific Coast in particular...
...Rose Bowl caliber since 1920. Even our chess team, once the strongest threat of our Intercollegiate aggregations, is no longer undefeated. When it becomes obvious, therefore, that in one sport we are consistently among the strongest colleges in the country we should take advantage of that fact to test our crew against the other top-notch colleges and to see if Harvard can't come out on top of the heap...
...Vichy French forces who will defend Syria number about 45,000, no more than a third of whom are white. They are said to be short of equipment, oil (since the British took Mosul) and morale. The invading British began to test this alleged morale shortage by first giving towns and garrisons a chance to surrender, turning the heat on if they would...
Before its test collection, OPM put on a surcharged publicity campaign, announcing that both cities were going to be asked to make a "sample sacrifice'' for national defense. To a citizenry worked up to the point of donating its blood or staying up all night, the sacrifice of a few pots & pans was easy. In both cities, old aluminum poured...
...crowd this was just grace before meat. Their dish was excitement. Would there be any smashups? Two of the cars that had qualified in test runs had already been wrecked: one the day before, in a last-minute tune-up; another only a few hours earlier, when a fire burned down a row of garages on the edge of the speedway. Would anyone break the record of 117.2 m.p.h.? Could Wilbur Shaw win the 500 for the third year in a row? It had never been done...