Word: testings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate police force of Cleveland, Ohio, was singled out as a prime example. An Army Intelligence test given in Cleveland had revealed...
Today the French courts obey their new instructions and have tightened up their recent laxity in granting divorces to foreigners. The first notable test case under the new regime came up, last week, when onetime (1920-21) U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby sought to obtain a divorce at Versailles. Rich, potent and himself a lawyer, Mr. Colby had retained to present his case that most distinguished of avocats onetime (1920-24) President of France Alexandre Millerand...
There is no surer road to party eminence than regularity, and Curtis is nothing if not regular. He was so regular on the occasion of that important test of regularity, the great schisur of 1912, that he not only stood by Taft-- though he came from the insurgent West--but confidently predicted that Taft was the only man who could win and that he would be triumphantly reelected. The same regularity has been evident in other important crises in his party's history. In 1912 Curtis voted to unseat Lorimer; but in 1911 he had voted to seat...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...
...last week President Coolidge himself ruled that Soviet gold exports to the U. S. were a result of trade between the countries, and should be received. Therefore, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon authorized the Assay office to count, test, weigh the bars, the bankers to sell the bars to the Sub-Treasury for a check in dollar denominations, the Mint to coin the bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars...