Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine events will comprise the contest, in which 31 Freshmen are entered. The majority of these men are unknown quantities and consequently the meet this afternoon will be in the nature of a test...
...astronomical station of the Harvard Observatory, equipped with two photographic telescopes, has just been installed on the edge of the nitrate desert of Northern Chile to test the atmospheric conditions in that locality, and to watch and photograph the southern stars that cannot be studied at the existing stations of the Observatory located at Cambridge, at Mandeville, Jamaica, and at Arequipa, Peru...
...working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March, a heavily clouded season prevails. The continuity of the photographic record is then so badly interrupted that it has now been decided to test other sites in the hope of finding a favorable place that may be occupied during the cloudy season at Arequipa...
...Fundamentalists cannot push the Liberals out of the Church unless the Moderates are willing to help push. Dr. Stone may be taken as typical of the Moderates. In theology he is conservative, but in practice liberal, because he is too practical to make theology the test of a Christian...
With a string of five straight victories to spur them on, the University basketball players will face their sternest test of the season this evening when the Columbia quintet appears at the Hemenway court. The New York collegians are rated as the best team in the Intercollegiate League and have made the impressive record of nine victories in ten starts...