Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed up for Squash last night will hold a series of test matches to be played before next Monday, October 29. Judging from the results of these trails Coach Cowles wil pick a squad of three teams of six men each...
From the start the Freshmen put the University's defensive playing to the test. In two downs the Freshmen had advanced ten yards. Miller, of the yearling team than took the ball and in several rushed had pushed it to the University's 30-yard line. Then the University stiffened, the Freshmen passed, lost the ball, and play began in midfield again. Again the Freshmen started the ball on its way with a series of rushes. Then came a long pass to the ten yard line which a University man caught but then juggled it into the hands...
...real prosperity as long as foreign markets are out of joint, and they will remain out of joint until order emerges from the chaos in Europe. Whether intervention by this country would work wonders or not is impossible to say. It has never yet been put to the test. Certainly, however, splendid isolation has been of no apparent assistance...
...first matter on the agenda will be a stiff test of the new President's power. The accredited Ministers to China resident in Peking protested last week against Foreign Secretary Wellington Koo's reply to their note of last August (TIME, Aug. 20, Oct. 8), wherein he stated that the bandit episode of last May was not directed primarily against foreigners. The Diplomats renewed their demands on the Chinese Government and stated...
Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...