Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Test Case. In Merced, Calif., after due investigation, the cause of the fire that broke out in Mater Misericordiae Hospital was found to be the pipe wrench left lying on electric wires by workmen who had installed the hospital's automatic fire sprinkling system...
...freshman track team, described by coach Jaakke Mikkola as potentially powerful but lacking depth, faces its first test at 1:30 p.m. today in Briggs Cago against a Northeastern squad which is also shallow in several events...
Director Joseph Mankiewicz has condensed the action to a series of intense, violent impression. Some are almost surrcalistic, such as a scene in a Beaver Canal junkyard, where white hoodlums test their weapons before a battle. Personalities and personal situations are only suggested; characters become casts of mass emotions...
Meanwhile at Tech, Roy Merrit--in his first year as varsity coach--finds himself with a fairly inexperienced team. Top men besides Callahan are Sinclair Buckstaff and Bart Conant. In their first test of the season, the M.I.T. wrestlers lost to Springfield, 18 t 16, in the final match...
...know what was the amount previously allotted . . . what is the saving?" When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...