Word: tested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potency test of a French Prime Minister is whether he can lash his budget through the Chamber of Deputies by Jan. 1. Nobody had done it for years until 1926, when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...
Such studies as can be taken in the College are scheduled, as far as possible, in the first two years, for the purpose of giving students an opportunity to test their tastes and abilities. Those who have tried engineering and decided they wish to transfer to the College may do so as late as the end of the second year, with full credit for what they have taken in the Engineering School. This has proved to be an advantageous arrangement for the students, and saved much unhappiness and waste of time. Twenty per cent of those who have entered here...
Needless to say, it is a physical impossibility to treat such a question creditably in the short time allotted. The test was so phrased as to allow the sufficiently prepared man no adequate opportunity to present his knowledge in a manner equal to the preparation and time expended. The type of examination, the evident mismanagement as to the assigned reading, and the requirement of a 5000-word thesis the week following the examination only add to the general dissatisfaction over having a December Hour examination...
...crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field, L. I., shortly after taking off with fouled and overheated motors. The ship burned itself and two houses. Vexed, Designer Fokker declared that pilot's fallibility rather than faulty design was the cause. The pilot was Marshall Sutherland Boggs, temporary Fokker test flyer, on leave of absence from the Department of Commerce...
...whether they do or do not wish to become part and parcel of the House Plan during their Senior year. In other words, the system which has been so deplored and so defended at Cambridge and at New Haven will now receive its first and perhaps its most vital test, that of undergraduate support or condemnation. Each junior at Cambridge must decide whether he desires to align himself with the new Harvard or prefers to complete his course under the traditional social system...