Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
Would Russia obey this order? Could two private citizens successfully command a Great Power? How did they ever get to thinking that they could? Was this to be the historic test case on the outcome of which businessmen throughout the world may base their opinion of the Soviet State's good or bad faith...
...racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that day, and was matched with Enterprise to see how the two would come out in moderate conditions. But bad weather-this time a calm-spoiled the race as it had spoiled five out of seven attempted tests. Enterprise was ahead when this last test was called off. "We feel," said Secretary Cormack of the Cup committee, "that she is the most dependable boat in all kinds of weather." Next day Enterprise flew all her flags in celebration. Skipper Vanderbilt went ashore, played a few sets of tennis but came...
Marjorie Morrill gave Betty Nuthall her hardest test of the tournament. She won the first set after the English girl had had her set-point twice. As though this had definitely decided the way the match was going to go, tall Marjorie Morrill took a lead of 4-2 in the second set. Betty Nuthall has been known to go to pieces as startlingly when she was behind as when she was ahead and for the first time the gallery had something to pay attention to. Further, as Betty Nuthall started to pick up a little she broke a racquet...
...Manhattan appeals to 70 member societies were issued. All Architects were urged to enlist local booster clubs, civic authorities, most of all to exhort state legislatures, in whose province lie curtailment powers. At the same time William Stanley Parker of Boston was named by the Institute to aid a test case, expected to prove a precedent, now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, in which the Massachusetts Billboard Law Defense Committee hopes to determine whether property can be constitutionally regulated...