Word: testes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year-Old. On the fifth birthday of the Turkish Republic, last week, every State and Municipal official was examined to see whether he knew his ABC's. Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the test. Those who flunked out would be demoted or dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must learn...
...Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...Crimson substitutes meet their first real test of the season when they line up against a Lehigh eleven this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The team will be under the direction of Line Coach Dunne in the absence of Head Coach Horween who has seized the opportunity to travel to Chicago to scout Pennsylvania, Harvard's opponent a week from today...
...lineup from that of the previous workout. J. W. Potter '30, erstwhile fullback who has been shifted to the tackle squad, was given a much needed drill in view of the fact that he may take the place of K. D. Robinson '29 tomorrow. That will be his initial test in the new post and the possibility of his holding down this berth during the rest of the season will depend on his showing tomorrow. In the event of Potter's remaining on the bench, John Parkinson '29 will be at guard, with Robinson resuming his regular tackle position...