Word: tester
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college do something, or pretend to do something to remedy it. The lecture rooms in the old hall of the University of Berlin are even worse than those in Sever in this regard, but the corporation occasionally relieve the student's agony by sending in an expert air-tester, who gathers in some atmosphere, and after testing it posts an analysis of its deadly qualities, not that any remedy is applied, but this simply removes the tension on the student's nerves...
...keys, and on looking in at the open door, he will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like, the lesson of the day, each viewing with the others as a lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems...