Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only four entrants set off, at intervals of 10 seconds, to fly the Pulitzer speed test. The Navy, winner last year, went unrepresented, having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel...
...height of the applause, comes a trivial issue and Parliament, which withstood the acid test of the Russian treaty, is dissolved by a drop of water. MacDonald modestly bows, acknowledges defeat, and hastens to blame the general election upon the Liberals; for all parties know that an election at the present time is distasteful to the people...
Whereas Andover has met two opponents already this season and vanquished them both, the Harvard Freshmen have had no test. Dean Academy fell before the powerful school team 23-0, and last week Cushing lost by one touchdown...
Harvard's Big Three rivals should encounter comparatively little opposition this afternoon, when Yale meets Georgia, whom the Elis beat last year 40-0, and Princeton opposes Lehigh, Coach Jones will try a varied line-up to test green material for the Dartmouth game, and Coach Roper is expected to start a different line from that which faced Amherst...
...Conservatives have decided to wait the test of strength until the vote of censure next Wednesday. Or, falling that, as they will unless supported by Asquith's failing Liberals, they will wait until the Anglo Russian treaty comes up in November. Mr. Asquith's stand against the proposed Russian treaty may force him to throw down the Labor government this week, but the evident Liberal weakness in the recent by elections may induce him to refrain from forcing a general election at present especially since Premier MacDonald would certainly place the issue before the electors...