Word: tested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity soccer team will put its claims on the Ivy League championship to the test this afternoon when it meets a rugged Dartmouth squad here at 2 p.m. If the Crimson can defeat the Indians, only Yale should stand in the way of a successful title defense...
Smiling Mike. But the U.S. officials recognized that Khrushchev's professions of sincerity, genuine as some of them sounded, might well be nothing more than more Communist talk. To test Khrushchev's good faith, they urged that the U.S. quickly make proposals for East-West agreements in a dozen different areas, e.g., a controlled nuclear ban, renewed negotiations on the U.S.S.R.'s lend-lease account with the U.S., an end to Soviet jamming of U.S. broadcasts beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...first test of the 1960 auto market came last week as the new cars rolled into the nation's showrooms-and the rush was on. The big sales news of the week was made by Chevrolet's compact Corvair. In its first two days of public showing, the Corvair chalked up orders and deliveries of 26,000 cars, more than 35% of Chevy's two-day total of 75,000. The news was both good and bad for Chevy: the company had hoped to sell one Corvair for every five Chevrolets; instead, it was selling...
...real test will come tomorrow, when some of the best college helmsmen in Massachusetts compete for the 38th Greater Boston Dinghy Championship. Since M.I.T.'s top skippers will be in Kings Point for the Nevins Trophy, B.U.'s favored team should present the only very formidable opposition...
...million dollar gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really significant results could be obtained in a group of practical size...