Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's varsity mermen are strongly favored to continue their winning ways in the Indoor Athletic Building pool this evening at 8:45 o'clock at the expense of the Brown Bears. Coach Leo Barry's squad should afford the Ulenmen their stiffest test of the year, but nevertheless the visitors are below par this season and have little hope of repeating their 38 to 37 upset victory of two years...
...pointing-dog trials, unlike retriever trials, no birds are killed. Birds are flushed, blank shots fired only to test the dogs' steadiness to shot & wing. Dogs are also judged on speed, range (how they cover the course), bird sense and nose, initiative, style, intensity of point. For two days last week the nation's 16 best bird dogs were put down in braces, competed against one another in one-hour heats. On the third day, eight were called back for final elimination...
...Rosella Carroll, 14, test tubes and microscopes were the most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...
...consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention.* Someone observed that she is very young to be so well-known in science. She is 33. "Why," she laughed, "I think that's awfully old!" Other highlights of the A. A. A. S. sessions which ended last week...
...last week, pontificated 66-year-old Edward Lee Thorndike, famed psychologist, emeritus professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Creator of an intelligence test that bears his name. Dr. Thorndike has made studies of the "goodness of living" in U. S. cities, based on such factors as per capita value of schools, libraries, parks, percentage of home owners, infant and general death rates (TIME...