Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...
...First tryout: next summer, when the pick of President Dumont's 70,000 sand-lot teams meet in Wichita for the national semi-pro championship...
...disregarding the orders of a warden is liable to immediate expulsion, and the severity of that penalty is well commensurate with the dangers arising from thoughtlessness during an enemy air attack. A repetition of the fireworks display put on by pranksters at the Business School during the recent Boston tryout, or of the shouting of Rhineheart in the Yard last Tuesday night, will not be tolerated by the University. A lighted match is visible from far above 10,000 feet; a window through which light escapes is a beacon to hostile planes. Civilians crowding the streets impede A.R.P. officials...
Competition for the Freshman hockey managership will begin tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the H.A.A. offices under the Union. An estimated 20 Yardlings will be on hand for the start of the six week tryout period which will give one of them the post of Freshman manager and his major numerals...
...special part of the competition will be devoted to Seniors who would like to announce but who have not the time to take part in a full-time tryout. They will be given voice tests, and after some drilling in production procedure, they will be allowed to handle Network programs