Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect Match. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Rugby Fan Ted Henderson ran an ad in the Star: "Urgent-refined gentleman wants to meet widow with two tickets, third test, Christchurch, August 29, view to matrimony. Kindly send photographs of tickets...
...meteor-plummeted through the stars of the heavens and then disappeared over the horizon. Hours later in Washington, U.S. spacemen announced the news: Big Joe, the funnel-shaped prototype of the vehicle that will carry the first U.S. man into space in 1961, had been shot aloft in a test and had been recovered intact. Had a man been inside for the historic flight, he would have made his return in complete safety...
This fall ACT will screen 150,000 high school seniors aspiring to some 250 colleges in 14 states. Results will go to the student, his school, the colleges of his choice. Price per student: $3, half the usual College Board fee. Another difference: the most widely used board test covers ability in English and math; ACT tests ability in English, math, social studies and natural sciences. Ostensibly, ACT is not competing with the board. With all freshmen due to jump from 711,000 this year to 1,267,000 by 1969, both organizations are likely to share ample business...
While Author Hart guides his characters through their scenes, he also manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity...
...RATE-TEST CASE that was won by railroads will bring lower rates for freight shipments in competition against truckers. ICC precedent allowing roads to slash paint freight rates was first major test for transportation act to aid ailing railroads...