Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Best test of a good idea is performance; strongest acknowledgment, imitation. Next month will end a year's performance by Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in the F. W. Woolworth Co. chain stores-a strategic play for the concentrated women-shopper circulation (TIME. Aug. 19, 1929). Last fortnight saw the appearance of two similar magazines on the counters of S. S. Kresge and S. H. Kress chain stores-testimonials to the idea that a million women who never patronize a newsstand will buy 10? love-fiction, mystery, Hollywood chatter every month...
...about being an actress. Her father had done some lighting work for a studio in Astoria and knew somebody who promised to do what he could for Anita. Her first screen name was Anita Rivers. After the company she signed with had disbanded in California she took a screen test for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which was successful. The company thought Anita Page sounded better. Now her father, mother and little brother live with her. She goes to bed early...
...coming session the Labor Government must put their new stopgap scheme to the test, either wangle through with it or go to the country for a general election...
Surgical Threads. Manufacturers of braided silk and catgut used in sewing up wounds heretofore have tested their threads five or six days to detect any latent germs. Henceforth, to satisfy fellows of the College of Surgeons, surgical threads must undergo 13 days' test-this the suggestion of Dr. Frank Lamont Meleney, Manhattan...
Professors in large lecture courses are opposed to the hours, if only because of the complicated machinery involved; section men, if they insist, are easily able to test ability by one or a series of informal tests. The only excuse ever offered to conscientious objectors is the necessity to retain some disciplinary check on the student. In a university where even the faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between...