Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vocal Club will test the various ranges of voice, designating the candidates as first and second tenors, baritone, and bass. Solo and quartet candidates will be welcomed. Previous experience is not absolutely essential...
There is a possibility that a test case, if rushed, can be gotten through the Mexican Supreme Court by next May or June. The immediate effect of cancellation of permits was to throw some 3,000 Mexican laborers who had operated the wells out of work. The Mexican Government appeared disposed to wait until the Mexican Supreme Court had ruled before taking action to alleviate the situation...
...used to correct their grammar when they conversed, and gravely lecture them upon the folly of wearing stays. . . . No village belle ever liked to own that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief and requesting them to pick it up; if they wore a 'board...
...spring in some measure from a lack of confidence both in the aims and in the achievements of the Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there is an equally legitimate test of its merit, and contribution from the Budget to the Student Friendship fund should not be made without thorough investigation of its purposes and of its actual accomplishments...
...intended," Professor Corwin says, "that this test shall supercede any of the present means of judging preparedness for college work. Its use will be tentative at first, and until experience has shown its proper function: How much and what aid it will give to the examiner is still problematical...