Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading Harvard skier in last year's race was Colin Maclaurin '38, whose time of 3 minutes, 00.8 seconds in the afternoon trial, gave him third place in total elapsed times...
While it is entirely legitimate for the H.A.A. to charge admission for intramural games with Yale, it would be a mistake to repeat last night's arrangement. The House basketball season was closed in a game preliminary to the Olympic elimination trial between Providence and Springfield. It is obvious that there must have been a considerable number of students who would have liked to witness the climax of Intra-House play but who had no desire to see the other event...
Besides the obvious advantages of the trial flight in his new field of concentration, the extension of the tutorial system would make the planning of the study card in the spring a much more logical and scientific affair than it is at the present time. The hasty alterations and substitutions made by the tutors the following autumn under the existing system not only are carelessly thought out, but add to the general confusion in September of the Sophomore year. If this work were done leisurely in the spring, while the Freshman was getting his first taste of concentration, more sober...
Another ex-New Dealer, General Hugh Johnson, whose own words are none too mild, wrote: "Freedom of speech, like trial by Jury, is a constitutional right-but not for Army officers. . . . The Army is for defense and not for dialectic. The minute it becomes a debating association in the public Press, it is no good for fighting...
...both are fearful, neither wants an out and out trial of strength. The cause of the Mongolian difficulties cannot be dismissed with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...