Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students at Harvard College shall be considered candidates for Honors until they prove otherwise either by failing a series of qualifying examinations or electing to pursue non-Honors studies. The Committee proposed that the first hurdle on the road to Honors be in the form of a "suitable test" administered at the end of the sophomore year and based on work accomplisred in sophomore group tutorial...
Students successfully passing this "test"--which has since been changed by a Faculty vote into some form of essay--would continue as Honors candidates, accomodated in most cases by individual tutorial during the junior year. The second round of qualifying examinations would come at the end of junior year in the form of a general examination encompassing "a broad knowledge of the techniques and methods in (a student's) field," tutorial work, and specific course material. Students who had failed their sophomore test would be permitted to take junior year qualifiers if they wished to try to regain entry into...
Anxious to test the tablets scientifically, Wright rushed back to England to find volunteer couples willing to risk pregnancy with only the tablets for insurance. Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope...
Chain-smoking Cypriot cigarettes, Foley puts in 80 hours a week at the Times office, drives his editorial staff (four Britons, six Foley-trained Cypriots) with querulous sarcasm. ("How many Cypriots," he is likely to cry, "care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...
Idlewild stands alone in the U.S. in objecting to jets. Airports in Chicago, Los Angeles. Miami. Boston. Denver, Wichita, Oklahoma City and also Mexico City, Caracas and Vancouver, B.C. welcome and actively solicit jetliner test flights, figuring that an airport that cannot or will not take jets might as well go back to cow pasture...