Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President tested public opinion last week to see whether the country desires strong arm tactics against the anti-foreign land and oil laws of Mexico. The test consisted in a "leak" from the State Department to the effect that a very stiff note had been sent to the Calles government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention.
...scheme, but in reality it is both a gentle repudiation of the Coolidge plan and a rebuke to the Democratic zeal for a general tax cut. Mr. Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant...
Tomorrow's test will be the 18th annual race under the auspices of the I. C. A. A. A. A. Since 1908, the honors have been divided among seven Eastern colleges, Cornell, Syracuse, Pittsburg, Maine, Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. The University won the team title in 1912 but since that time has not scored another triumph...
...greater part of the afternoon session, the coach shifted his eleven about, using men in several positions, and filling each place with new material. After the potentialities shown by the substitutes in last week's till with Brown, the Harvard mentor is putting the entire squad through a final test and giving each man, by plenty of work in different positions, an opportunity to demonstrate his full ability...
...arts and one Benn W. Levy, advertised as a young Oxford graduate nursing his first play which proved a great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...