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Word: testing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen minutes before the first Harvard boat started upstream on its trial, the Yale crew was sent over the same course for a speed test. No time for this run was taken in the Crimson camp. The performance of the Harvard eight tonight differed only a few seconds from the previous test, but is considerably slower than the 20 minute 43 second clocking of the Leader combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CREW RACES CLOCK ON THAMES | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

With the city of Canton temporarily safe from capture by the rebel armies of Kwangsi (TIME, May 27), the Nationalist Government turned last week to face the most serious test of its three years of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Feng Steps Out | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...precipitation test is especially precious to distinguish tuberculosis meningitis from other forms of that brain disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Meeting | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...present system of selecting all the Senior class officers by a test of popularity is a custom which should be classed as obsolete. The officers fall naturally into two groups--those which are purely honorary--the marshals for example, and those involving a certain amount of responsibility and work such as the poet, the odist, the secretaries and the various committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...simple soul who is merely looking for a good aero stock. Neither are the standard financial columns, vague in their statements, technical in their language, obscure in their significance, of much help to him. Thus the small investor is forced to select his stocks largely by the Blindfold Test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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