Word: tester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipate from their comparative values that the lead alloy would be many times as sensitive to pressure effects as are the aluminum alloys or that the iron nitrogen alloy would show,--if, indeed, it shows anything,--a sensitivity so small as to escape detection by the usual Rockwell hardness tester...
Armed with a high-powered rifle, a tester for the biggest U. S. explosives company walked a few paces, wheeled, aimed, fired. The bullet zipped into a two-foot cylinder of whitish stuff resembling caked salt. Nothing happened. A 50-lb. trip-hammer crashed down on another cylinder. Nothing happened. A man attacked another piece of the substance with a blowtorch. It simply sizzled. Red-hot irons bored holes in other pieces and still nothing happened. Other lumps were dropped into furnaces. They disintegrated harmlessly. Testers tried in vain to make the stuff explode with blasting caps. But when...
Harvard football fans will probably be more interested in this afternoon's battle between Brown and Yale, two prospective Crimson opponents, than in the Penn State clash which bids fair to be not much more than a second team tester, even though the Nittany Lions have been pointing all their noses towards this contest. When the Bruins emerge from their lair to tackle the Elis, who appear to have been in complete hibernation so far, there is no doubt but that fur will fly in the 37th meeting of the two aggregations. Brown sees its first real chance...
...Gang's All Here. Artist Russell Patterson designed the costumes, Oscar Hammerstein II helped the direction, Colyumist Russel Grouse wrote the book, Tilly Losch staged the ballet. The cast includes: luscious Gina Malo (Sons O' Guns); red-headed Zelma O'Neal (Good News); silly Ruth Tester (Second Little Show); the white-faced team of Shaw & Lee, droll Tom Howard and ingratiating Ted Healy. And seldom has wealth been more hopelessly, tastelessly squandered...
...Second Little Show has a star it is small Ruth Tester, who weighs 88 lb. and once rowed on the Smith College crew. Having appeared in The Ramblers and Follow Thru, she it is who grimaces and capers through "Sing Something Simple," an elemental little ditty which consistently interrupts the performance...