Word: testers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Star of the Year (moviewise) and Performing Animal Television Star of the Year (televisionwise). Sponsor of the event is the American Humane Association, watchdog body that protects animals from cruel treatment on TV and movie sets. The judges are newspaper columnists, but neither Price Waterhouse nor a saliva tester authenticates the ballots. The master of ceremonies was a human TV personality, Woody Woodbury, who may go far if the past is any portent. The first M.C., back in 1951, was Ronald Reagan, whom fans will remember for his smooth presentation of the top Patsy Award to Francis the talking mule...
...book moves confidently through the intricate levers and whirling spherical typeheads of IBM electric typewriters; it clarifies the complexities of a jukebox and explains the coin tester that automatically rejects slugs by weighing, measuring and magnetically testing the metallic makeup of every coin that drops into the slot. It not only describes how a home vacuum cleaner functions but also spells out the difference between less expensive and higher-quality machines...
...Department of Transportation and other federal agencies are now considering a preliminary proposal for passenger and cargo tests of an aircraft that could put the spring back in short-hop air travel. The tester: New York Airways, operator of a helicopter shuttle between Manhattan and nearby air ports. The plane: the Breguet 941, a spectacular French STOL (short takeoff and landing aircraft), with the capabili ty of handling passengers at points much closer to the centers of cities...
...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
...outside specialists. The committees make their decisions in keeping with the expected public examination questions. Therefore, teachers do not usually expand or experiment with course material. If they do, students are likely to ignore the additional or novel material, since they are aware that they will not be tester in it. Except in the physical sciences, where 30% of the grade is determined by class work, the student's grade on the public exam in his grade for the course...