Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...good place for a citizen to test his faith in democracy is the gallery of the U. S. House of Representatives. Down below, in that swarm of 435 members, small men, bound by the small necessities of politics, outnumber big men. House debate often sounds like an aimless caterwauling; order, purpose, logic more often than not seem lost in a parliamentary jungle. Yet there is order, of a kind. It is arranged and enforced by a few members: the Majority and Minority Leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of key committees (Rules, Ways & Means, Judiciary, Appropriations)-and above...
...party's 1940 nominee for President. He also let resentful delegates to the Democratic Convention in Chicago cast 329 votes for him for Vice President. But his claim to be remembered was that, despite his difficulties and his times, the House under him remained a place to test but not to forfeit the democratic faith...
Down in Tigertown Tad Wieman is assembling the strongest Princeton team since the golden days of Fritz Crisler. The passing combination of Allerdice to Stanley will be one of the best in the land and will test the Harvard aerial defenses to the limit...
...account, that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often falls to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every student who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test it, let us say, by a general examination, that would be quite a different matter...
...purpose of the Network is to supply programs that major networks, for one reason or another, cannot give. College news and feature interviews, like those with the Wellesley hoop-roll queen or Col. Stoopnagle, fill an important spot at 10.45. Primarily, the Network wants to be a test tube where new ideas in music drama or talks can be tested and tried...