Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awful example quoted by Mr. Tunis, and the actual facts. Mentally I was good enough to complete the four-years requirements at Harvard in three years with cum laude ranking, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. and only recently I managed to answer TIME'S general information test 97% correctly, so the old faculties seem to be working reasonably well. From the moral aspect, I have never been in jail, am living with the same wife I married 22 years ago, and still pass the plate occasionally. Financially, I am an officer or director in some dozen assorted corporations...
Last week's game, by an agreement made last spring to save the trouble of test matches to choose an International team, was not, properly speaking between Argentina and the U. S. It was between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could...
This organization pays its own operating expenses with fees from manufacturers who want their technical problems to be tackled in the Institute's laboratories. In Andrew Mellon's pale thin fingers was placed a bronze plaque showing a young man in laboratory smock, holding up a test-tube and bestriding a smoky factory, with clouds in the shape of chemical retorts. Inscription: "The Pittsburgh Award to Andrew W. Mellon-For Outstanding Service to Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh Section." A similar award made posthumously to Brother Richard Beatty Mellon was received by his son, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon...
...Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed: "I'm just thrilled to death...
...were of an age when many of them might have seen Shakespeare in the flesh. When Harvard was one hundred years old there was as yet no American nation. At its 200th anniversary the solidarity of the American union had still to be put to its crucial test. Yet through three hundred great and troubled years Harvard has endured; it has lived past wars and revolutions; it is older than the government under which it exists. Like a great river which is forever moving, the stream of its life is uninterrupted...