Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge presided at an oratorical contest in which five boys and two girls gave orations on the American Constitution. Four Justices of the Supreme Court were judges of the con-test-Van Devanter, Butler, Sutherland, Sanford. First prize ($3,500) was awarded to Don Tyler of Los Angeles. In his prolegomena, the President said: "Our constitutional system has justified itself not only in our own history, but in the fact that it has been accepted as the model upon which so many later experiments in democratic-republican institutions have been based...
...about one third of all the Baptists of the whole world. . . . Thus the salvation of Negroes is logically and largely the work of Baptists." He declared that the presence of the Negro in the North as elsewhere created "a real or an imaginary problem which is the severest test of the worth and practicability of Christianity." He added that "to protect a credulous, inexperienced voter from the avarice and selfishness of 'designing men, is the golden opportunity and imperative duty of humanity-loving, God-fearing...
...trend of opinion is that every test may properly be used to select candidates?intellectual tests, tests of health, strength, and endurance, personal tests based on evidence of former teachers and on conferences between members of the Admission Committees and candidates...
Harry Grindell Matthews (TIME, June 2) plunged deeper into an orgy of mysterious dickering with prospective purchasers of his invisible "death ray." Refusing an offer of ?1,000 from the British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold...
...London, Conn., June 6.--Coach Stevens announced this evening that the two changes in the University eight, effected yesterday as a test, will probably be permanent. Johnson and Jameson are the two new members of the first combination, rowing at five and six respectively, while Adie, who has pulled oar six heretofore has taken Weymer's place at four. Gates was formerly at five...