Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went back to Missouri to run the campaign, earned a smashing triumph when the State returned record Democratic majorities for both national...
Amazed last week was Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission by the name sent in to him by a caller-President Sydney Richard Inch of Electric Bond & Share, biggest power holding company in the U. S. and defendant in the SEC's test suit on the Public Utility...
...best trail skiing to be found close to Boston is at the trail built by the Massachusetts District Commission on the Blue Hills Reservation. The trail is necessarily short but is much more of a test for the skier than one would expect. The half mile run drops steeply and sharp turns make the trail compare favorably with those in New Hampshire. The trail is apt to be crowded and often becomes too icy for good running. With new snow the trail is inviting to the skier who lacks time to trek north and who appreciates skiing within 20 minutes...
Although most fraternity pledges survive their initiations with a whole skin, suffering only from jitters induced by mouthing blindfold a human eye (fried egg or oyster) or worms (cold spaghetti), the week after midyear examinations during which most U. S. campuses test their fraternity men is well named Hell Week...
...through classes the dream is in my mind. Afterwards to wander aimlessly . . . Shepard Hall. The sign on the door reads, "Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research; Driver Test Clinic." Some impulse moves me inside. A professor beside a machine that seems a cross between an airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast...