Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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However, the case was a test of major industrial importance to clarify the Sherman Act. Many an industry using complicated machinery pools patents is uncertain if it is inside or outside the law. Recently the Oil Industry was restrained in U. S. court from pooling its "cracking" patents...
...possibilities which can be conceived in the use of television, the first theatrical test of which was carried out Thursday night in Schenectady, are almost limitless. As the railroad, the aeroplane, and now the radio have each brought with them a host of new fields of experimental investigation and practical development, so television offers still another opportunity for scientists to change and facilitate modern life...
...Yale plan is not a great deal different from several which are at the present time being tried in as many American colleges and universities. In its absolution of the student from all compulsory class attendance, and in its substitution of a comprehensive examination for the intermittent course tests which Harvard requires in addition to the divisionals, it is remarkably like Oxford. There men "vagabond" all their lectures; indeed, some of them secure their degrees without ever having attended a formal lecture, but do all of their studying under the direction of a don. As the News proposes, the final...
...first resisting, finally adopting modern agricultural methods in their work. Like all contemporary Russian cinemas, it is dishonest. The victory is won too easily; better times break out like sunlight at the touch of Soviet educators, while the real, secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which...
...office. And even the most rabid admirer of the general theatre-going public will hardly credit it with the same level of intelligence as a Harvard audience. The result of this state of affairs is that there are many plays which would not pass the pragmatic test of filling a New York theatre with Broadway Babbits and yet are worthy of the Dramatic Club's attention. And anyone who has ever glanced over the rich fields of Elizabethan and Restoration drama knows that not one in ten of the best plays of those periods is ever seen on the professional...