Word: testing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hydraulic machinery in the engineering building will be ready for use in a short time. The large stand-pipe has been kept full of water for several days to test the pressure it can stand without leaking. The tank into which the water is to flow has just been put in place. The weighing tanks have not arrived. When they are put in place the machinery will be practically ready...
Professor Shaler has been designated by President Cleveland as one of the commissioners to test and examine the weight and fineness of the coins reserved at the several mints during last year...
...games which take place Saturday evening, January 26, in the Worcester skating rink. With the exception of the half-mile and 600 yards novice race, all the events are open. The track is fourteen laps to the mile with raised corners and the men will have ample opportunity to test their speed. These games will give the runners experience which ought to be of great value in the more important games of the B. A. A. First and second prizes are given in each event. The Harvard entries are as follows...
...arrangements for the Harvard Yale debate, to be held tonight in Sanders Theatre, have been completed by the committee. The sale of seats has been large and when the speakers ascend the platform they should face an audience which will test the capacity of the theatre. The Radcliffe Union will attend in a body and a large delegation from the Wellesley debating and literary societies will be present...
...book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that time the book...