Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brewing in the public mind; timely comment and clarification of any currently discussed college topic commands respect. During the past year one student appealed to the Council on a ruling of the Dean's Office on the matter of language pre; this was used more or less as a test case, and several suggestions were made on language pro in general. It is to be hoped that students will get in the habit of following this procedure
...eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people, the victim on the altar of immolation, are today being called on as the nation to .decisively test and crush atheistic Communism...
Angell's charges were withdrawn before the final vote on Davis's reappointment, but Dean Weigle did not propose a reconsideration of the four test votes that had previously condemned him. However, the committee, at the same time as condemning Angell, stated that it did not believe Angell's letter had "appreciably affected" the final vote of the board...
...same week the Morro Castle burned off the Jersey shore, the S. E. P. was featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which...
...Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis...