Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more, our fleet is divided and our Pacific Coast is at the mercy of the " Black" Navy. These are the hypothetical results of the battle maneuvers of our fleet in the Pacific. The United Stales fleet under command of Admiral Jones put the Canal defenses to the most severe test possible and discovered weakness. The story of the attack was this: The fleet divided into a "Blue" fleet defending the canal and a "Black" or "enemy" fleet attacking. It was assumed that strained relations existed between the "Black" government and the United States, and that the condition was further aggravated...
...August von Wassermann, distinguished German serologist, who developed the so-called"; Wassermann test "for syphilis, announced another achievement in preventive medicine- a method of determining the presence in the body of latent tuberculosis before it becomes active in the lungs. This will enable physicians to weed out the probable victims of the dis- ease. A regime of appropriate diet, rest and fresh air, applied in special schools and at home, will then go far to prevent tuberculosis from claiming those who would formerly have been its prey. Dr. Wassermann's method-he refuses to call it a discovery...
Students of the Louisiana Girls' College, Newcomb, having failed in an " intelligence test to determine their knowledge of every day subjects," instituted a similar examination of 23 members of the Faculty. The results were discouraging. Al Jolson was found to be a wrestling champion; sequins were fish; Maraschino, well-known cherry, was a premier of Russia; and Filet Mignon was an opera by Puccini. It is understood that intelligence is not a popular subject at the college...
...intending going abroad the summer coming, here is an opportunity to test your sealegs and to experience at first hand the remarkably efficient and courteous service offered by The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company...
...grown daily more frequent. The prospect of a college without monitors seems now like a utopian vision; yet other institutions have been known to survive without them, and the idea of making attendance voluntary has not only been considered here already, but has been put to an actual test at least once during the last half century...