Word: testings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Douglas, 54, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was coming along fine: doctors now thought that they could save his left eye, which was snagged by a wind-blown fishhook a month ago on the Test River. Leading off a long report to the State Department, Douglas cracked: "As I see the problem from my bed, and through...
...very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
...faced Sir Alfred, 70, had made his reputation as an able painter of fine horseflesh. More recently, he had been worsted by Tate Gallery Director John Rothen stein in a public test of the Academy's taste in art collecting (TIME, March 14] and announced his decision to retire nex year. But Horse Painter Munnings was still feeling his oats; he made the R.A. dinner an occasion to register his emphatic nay to modern...
...Hotchkiss the precocious editor found a rival to test his hotly competitive nature; in print, he was soon pummeling the writings of Henry Robinson Luce, editor of the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly. Their friendly competition turned to collaboration on the Yale Daily News, where Hadden was chairman and Luce managing editor. On graduation their classmates picked Hadden as "most likely to succeed" and Luce as "most brilliant" of their class...
...Twin Cities, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, New York and north into Maine. Prescott also intended to carry on, for the time being, with his six DC-4s and three C-47s. "The decision gives me a lot of new markets," he said, "but I've got to test them to see if they will be profitable...