Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Morgan has, indeed, long been a firm friend of Britain, and never was the staunchness of his friendship better shown than when British reputation was put to a test in the early months of the World War and was being besmirched by those in his own country whose origin and interests made them naturally zealous to damage it. Credit meant much in those days, but the help to Britain of the House of Morgan was unwavering and invaluable...
Zeller & Wenzel. Well known in the industry but not overpublicized, experts but not sensationalists were Myron E. Zeller, chief pilot, and Carl Wenzel, chief test mechanic, of Ford Motor's aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador...
Wisely, the test of American Legion membership is honorable service. Few soldiers could choose the service they would perform. Had the choice been theirs, three million more would have found the front lines, and acquitted themselves well. As good and as brave soldiers never left American training camps as fought in France, and I take nothing from the American soldier, the greatest individual of any army...
...Chicago, Gangsters Richard Michael Sullivan and Frank Bell were sentenced to death by a jury. They face electrocution for the murder of Christ Patras, which Bell's recent "confession" linked to the Lingle and Zuta slayings (TIME, Oct. 13). Another jury upheld the first test vagrancy warrant issued against 26 "public enemies'' by Judge John H. Lyle...
Exactly 30 per cent of those taking all examinations passed; the best proportion was in the reading French test, which was also taken by the largest number. 178 of the 471 candidates, or 37.8 per cent, were successful. In elementary French, 3 out of 18, or 16.6 per cent, passed: in elementary German 9 out of 47, or 16.07 per cent, passed; in reading German, 13 out of 65, or 20 per cent, passed; in reading Latin, 10 out of 99, or 10.1 per cent, passed; and in reading Greek, the only candidate failed. These figures, giving the percentage...