Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...referring to Mr. Joseph Dunninger, conjurer and self-styled expert on psychic investigation, it is stated that "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages (with him) before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits." Now I cannot speak for Mr. Edison or Mr. Houdini, but I do know for an absolute fact that so far as my father is concerned there is not one word of truth in this statement...
...tall, ambitious Chairman James Lawrence Fly, onetime TVA general counsel and seasoned New Dealer, talked straight antimonopoly language like that familiar around SEC, TNEC, and the Justice Department. His report rejected the alternatives of Government ownership and rigid utility-style regulation. Said the report: "Competition, given a fair test, will best protect the public interest. That is the American system." And it added: "We doubt that the networks have so little faith in the stability of their own enterprise as is suggested by their insistence that the whole structure of commercial broadcasting will collapse if their relations with outlets...
Professor Merriman's favorite charges, the Eliot House crew, faces its acid test tomorrow morning when it comes up against the champion Yale eight, Trumbull College, over the mile course...
...Elephants have swept the river so far this year and should win the engagement easily, according to pre-race dope. In a mile test yesterday the first Eliot boat slugged over the mile course to finish a deck-length ahead of the second Eliots. Two lengths back was a Union Boat Club eight stroked by Spike Chace, whose name still makes every good Yale crew devotee shudder...
CHICAGO--British Ambassador Lord Halifax, embarking on a seven-day test of "public sentiment in the American Midwest," tonight encountered "Send Halifax to Halifax" placards borne by pickets at his hotel...