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Word: testing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare chords of an ancient 1700 Stradivarius and a Guarnerius met an electric test of science yesterday in the laboratory of Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, in an attempt to discover whether modern technique can surpass the art of the famous Italian masters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEIFETZ PLAYS FOR SCIENCE AS ANALYSER SPLITS SOUND | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

...test of only an hour's length, it is the man who can reason the quickest and have the subject at the tips of his fingers who will come our on top. Yet this places a high premium on one type of student, and explains why so many people with thoroughness rather than equickness, originality rather than powers of memory, do not have a chance to show their ability in an hour exam. But given an essay to prepare outside of class, all the various talents of each individual manifest themselves; initiative in research, originality in approach, clarity of organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Represented by the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a third-year law student battled with the City Election Commission before the bar of justice yesterday in what may well be a test case on the right of graduate men to vote in Cambridge. Justice Qua of the State Supreme Court reserved decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW STUDENT FIGHTS FOR SUFFRAGE RIGHT | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

...gonorrhea were detected during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Tests | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson, twice his party's candidate for Governor, and also Minneapolis' hard-boiled Mayor George Leach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drugstore Cowboy | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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