Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captured off the African coast by a German raider that had already sunk or captured seven vessels. And as the Appam dropped anchor in the harbor of a troubled neutral, it gave the U. S. one of the complex, confused, unprecedented and yet precedent-ridden problems that are the test of the skill of a country's diplomats, the Tightness of its foreign policy, the humanity and firmness of its foreign dealings in a time of international stress...
That was 23 years ago. Last week, into Kola Bay, north of the Russian harbor of Murmansk, the U. S. freighter City of Flint dropped anchor and thereby posed for Russia a far less crucial test of its neutrality, the skill of its diplomats, the wisdom of its foreign policy. City of Flint was flying the German flag. It carried a German prize crew. Dramatic was the story of its seizure and flight. But last week the swift routine moves of the Russian Foreign Commissariat, the swift routine countermoves of the U. S. State Department, unexpectedly turned into something bigger...
Last week the monster emerged from its assembly shop for a test run on Chicago streets, found the going difficult. First it got jammed under a viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with...
...shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...
...Standard machine to test hearing is the audiometer, a phonograph-like device with earphones instead of an amplifier. When records are played, with varying sound intensities, subjects write down what they hear. With an adequate number of earphones, an audiometer can test the hearing ranges of a classroomful of children in 25 minutes...