Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...natural scholar, he assembled years of reading and research in his decision. Thirty-three of his decisions have been carried to higher courts; only three have been reversed. Appeal. Attorney General Mitchell immediately ordered the Sprague case appealed directly to the U. S. Supreme Court for a full test of the points raised against the 18th Amendment. Sweeping aside all the judge's erudite views, the Government flatly contended that he had erred, that the Amendment's ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which...
Drug addicts are the smartest inmates of Federal prisons, the Government figured last week. Public Health Service mental hygienists had studied the intelligence test ratings of the prisoners. Significant is the fact that 30 out of 100 dope fiends are above average intelligence. Of nonaddicts 18% rate above average, 17% defective. Only 10% of the addicts are defective...
...Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What a Chorus Sang...
...most such unions, the couples have met and worked together as young students. Marie Sklodowska was 27 when she first knew Pierre Curie at the Sofbonne. The George Frederick Dicks (she was Gladys R. Henry) worked together at McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (Chicago), developed their famed scarlet fever test nine years later as man & wife. University of Pennsylvania has its Clarks-Dr. Elliott Round and Eleanor Acheson Linton-who have done notable work together on cell microscopy...
...Spain had donated a cup for it and the Grasslands group added $5,000 prize money. Partly the race was a promotion scheme to attract other sportsmen to take out $10,000 memberships in the Grasslands Foundation. Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races...