Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's hockey sextet will get its first real test of the season tonight when it faces off against the ever strong University Club six. The game will be the second on the schedule for Coach Stubb's charges, they having trounced B. U. last Wednesday night to the tune...
...individual with Putnam and Cunningham bearing the burden of it. Garrison, playing his first game at defence also contributed several neat plays. The goalie situation however advanced no farther because the B. U. forwards were practically unable to break through and give Harvard's net-tenders a fair test. Ellis played the first and third periods and Draper relieved him during the second stanza. Both of them had so few opportunities, however, that it seems the first game will not do much towards the selection of a regular goalie...
Harvard will get its real test Friday night when it plays this same University Club at the Arena. The Crimson will have to face such stars as the Bigelow twins, John Chase, former Crimson captain, and Ted Learned, crack goalie, in this encounter...
...church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...
High High Wind. Towering over Anacostia, D. C. to test a new climbing plane, the Navy's high flyer Apollo Soucek, holder of the U. S. altitude record (39,140 ft.) encountered a 60 m. p. h. wind at a height of six miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...