Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Taste Test (Cont...
Lyman Richards M.D. would test concert audiences' musical appreciation by seating "Kreisler, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A 'Blind' sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow and play as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois." (TIME, April...
...pray that Dr. Richards' medical tests are directed more scientifically than this music test. Can he think that the noisy street is a proper laboratory for the sounding of the most exquisite notes played with the Kreisler spirit and finesse? Does he not realize that many of those walking along a side walk would not be guilty of sitting in a concert hall and have, therefore, nothing to do with the test...
...safe to say that the tradition of reading poetry aloud is not to be killed by a lot of theorizing. Every poet may want to be his own Aristotle, but all his legions of poetic theories will not dethrone the gods unless he writes poetry. There is no test but time; beauty never dies...
...discovery, result of pure biological research, was put to test in a Philadelphia hospital. It was found that bed sores, ulcers, when treated with a simple sulphur compound, healed quickly. Only a few days, stated Dr. Hammett, were necessary to cure an ulcer on a Philadelphia bootlegger's foot. Brilliant are the possibilities suggested by this theory. Possibly, predicted some, it may solve the most mysterious of life processes...