Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university as large as Harvard, with graduates scattered throughout the world and attached to all manner of political, religious, and economic causes, cannot draw strict lines as to whom it will and will not cherish. About the only test it can apply is whether the man was sincere in his convictions, was honest and decent in his personal relationships, and was moved by a desire to help his followemen...
Your account shows George V not merely the force for union but the faithful servant of his people. He has endured, along with them, a quarter of a century that was the most crucial test of a nation's and a king's character...
...first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them all for ''pussyfooting and chasing around the bush." What was in their minds, he knew, was: would Fundamentalist McComb be loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally...
Last year, having won what he tersely referred to in his annual report as "the case of the U. S. v. Weirton Steel Co." (famed test of the Recovery Act's labor section), Chairman Weir, found time to ponder finances. Mr. Weir thinks that a big debt is a good thing for a company because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly...
...eighteenth century, knows today that her troubles have just begun. When the body of Marshal Pilsudski has been laid in Wawel Castle beside his nation's heroes, Poles will be forced to put aside their black crepe and face the gloomiest of realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates; a howling chaos may engulf the country, in which men of definite ambitions...