Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, the Pan-Am championships proved a test of its sturdiness against tough international competition. Only one Crimson rower is graduating from the team, and the others will definitely have an eye out for the Olympic Trials next year if they win convincingly next week...
Putting cordierite to the test, Ramskou accompanied Navigator Jensen on an SAS flight to Greenland, keeping track of the sun with his stone while Jensen used the twilight compass. His observations were accurate to within 21° of the sun's true position, and he was able to track the sun until it had dipped 7° below the horizon. "I now feel convinced," Ramskou concludes, "that the old Viking sailors with the aid of their sun stones could navigate with enormous accuracy...
...passengers and go into service by 1972. By agreement of the three governments, Britain was to build the craft's engine. Trouble is, the envisioned Rolls-Royce model is still on the drawing boards, while the U.S.'s Pratt & Whitney already has a suitable engine in the test stage. So France's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines, SNECMA, announced that it would exercise its option to build the Pratt & Whitney engine. Seemingly, that was merely a hint that Rolls-Royce had better get cracking on its own model, but behind it lay the unmistakable fact that French...
Their paces are admirable. The production is remarkably finished for a repertory company opening night. Every element works toward lucid characterizations. Everingham stands the characters in close confrontation: Raskolnikov (Paul Glaser) who murders to test a philosophy, stands in a limp full shirt and baggy trousers next to John Lithgow's ramrod prissy Luzhin, the rich, hollow financee of Raskolnikov's sister. The lines of character like the lines of John Braden's sets are balanced, clear and instantly defined. Bea Paipert creates two brief roles, the hunched, old pawnbroker Raskolnikov kills and a crazy madam at a police station...
...about two years the University has considered building an underground addition to Houghton and Widener, but serious planning could not begin until test borings were made to see if the land was suitable for large-scale construction beneath the surface. These tests were carried out this spring and they showed that the underground structure was feasible...