Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justly so. The proposal of the Committee to award scholarships to twenty preparatory school students, the recipients to be named by the respective headmasters, places the grants in the hands of men qualified to judge more capably of the qualifications of these prospective Freshmen. Much more than the trial-and-error method which the University of necessity now assumes the new plan will have the benefit of first-hand experience to make the awards on a basis of merit. By its very nature a scholarship is not financial aid alone: It is a monetary reward for merit, distributed to those...
...most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing 20,000 bbl. per day, the U. S. at his trial showed that from all his wells not ten barrels per day could be pumped. The sentencing judge compared him to Ananias and Sapphira...
Since then the latest trial which Her Majesty has magnificently borne was the long excursion of George V to the very brink of Death (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 to July 15). Night and day she intelligently aided the doctors to save her husband, the statesmen to rule his realm. As presiding officer of a specially created Council of State she signed for His Majesty hundreds of state papers, among which the following Order in Council was not the least: "It shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell...
Died. Bartley Madden, 40, New York heavyweight boxer; after falling off the steps of the Treasury Building at Washington during a sight-seeing tour. Onetime champion of his native Ireland, he was famed in the U. S. as a tough, courageous "trial horse" for title-seekers. In 22 years he fought 94 bouts: won 52 (29 knockouts), lost 14 (one knockout-by Gene...
...true that youth usually demands the trial and, error method. Nevertheless this psychological pattern might have been understood and dealt with in a more intelligent fashion by the Amherst faculty. A burned child may acquire a beneficial fear of the fire; but a dead one is of no use to anybody...