Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Wilmington, Del., last week from the test field for Bellanca planes, George Haldeman lifted his stock Bellanca Pacemaker, powered with a Wright Whirlwind 300 h. p. motor. He was in the air for 1 hr. 16 min. During that time he had hoisted his ship to a new commercial plane altitude record of 33,500 feet. The previous record was 25,700 feet...
...must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses a minute they felt as though they were "floating on air" and were at the verge...
...University Seconds at 2.15 o'clock at the Garden. Captain Saltonstall, who returned to the ice yesterday after spraining his ankle in the St. Paul's School game, will probably be saved for the game at New Haven Saturday. Without his services the team will meet a real test in their undefeated opponents...
...steps of the Chamber of Deputies Pudgy M. Cheron explained why he had put the government to a test vote...
...present test of undergraduate reaction toward education is found almost solely in examinations of one type of another. All these examinations have time limitations in common and their grading, especially in large courses, depends not upon the reaction of the student to the facts, theories, or superficial generalities which he has gained from lectures, books, or tutoring schools, but upon the condensation of these acquired bits of knowledge. Strangely enough it is in the smaller courses, in which individual contact between the professor and the student enables a more understanding judgment of the student's worth, that theses are assigned...