Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University quintet will face its first real test of the season this evening at 8 o'clock when the M. I. T. five visits the Hemenway Gymnasium. The Harvard line-up will be the same as in the last game, as Coach Wachter hesitates to break up a winning combination...
...intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest plane...
Preparations for the annual manoeuvres of the U. S. Fleet were announced last week in Washington. Last year a portion of the fleet staged a sham attack on the Panama Canal from the Pacific with the remainder of the fleet defending the Canal. This year the plan is to test the ability of the Canal defenses to keep the Canal open for the passage of the Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic and the length of time required to concentrate the fleet in either ocean by means of the Canal...
...squad with substantial preparatory school records, but there are two or three whom Coach Chase expects will eventually become college stars. With no stellar performers around whom to build, the development of the team will inevitably be slow. Tomorrow's contest will offer a real-test, and Coach Chase thinks that his team has an even chance...
Which is faster?the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the "juice" seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a short test track by a locomotive built by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Works for the Paris-Orleans Railroad, France. This is the greatest speed ever attained by an electric locomotive, and could just as well have been 125 miles an hour, said officials, if the track had been longer. Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from...