Word: testers
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...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...