Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rawlins '27, number three on the University court squad will be the first Crimson racquet wielder to test the competition in the Massachusetts State Squash Championships, being held under the auspices of the Union Boat Club, when he plays in the opening round today. Captain G. D. Debevoise '26 and R. S. Wright '26, first two players on the championship University quintet have been ranked along with M. P. Baker '22, present holder of the state crown and Ralph Powers, Canadian champion, as seeded players. They will both swing into action later in the week...
...Hall at Chicago's Art Institute. He brought together 500 school principals and invited citizens to be audience for the exercises. He chose seven "appraisers" to sit in judgment. He prevailed on a group "who admit themselves to be of average intelligence" to act as examiners and give tests to the 40 "sample" pupils. Each test was conducted by "a citizen with practical knowledge of the subject under consideration." One Elmer Stevens examined the clothes, teeth, hair and general presentability of the "samples." Robbert McMurdy tested them in the use of common tools; he asked them to repair...
Histologist Jean Painleve had been experimenting with the lower forms of plant and animal life. As they grew and unfolded in his test tubes, their unscientific intrinsic beauty seemed to him, to merit reproduction by the cinema. He called up a friend, the French cinema director, Rene Sti. M. Sti at once despatched a cameraman. The cameraman cranked, Jean Painleve fussed in and out of the pictures with his test tubes, then the extraordinary occurred...
When the trial footage was run off, Director Sti declared that the test tube shots of low and supposedly interesting forms of life, had flopped: "Tiresome! As my friend Douglas Fairbanks says, 'a dud!' Positively sickening...
Object of the Flight: "The object of the midwest flight was threefold, viz.: to test the mooring mast at Detroit, to continue training of personnel and to comply with many requests received from citizens of that section of the country that such a flight be made...