Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Jayvee event is also unpredictable, especially since the Crimson's initial test against Syracuse earlier in the season only narrowly resulted in a victory. Cornell's second boat has been twice beaten, but by Navy, and Yale, which have very strong Jayvee eights
Another side of air defense which America has neglected is "basic research," Bollay said. As an example of German superiority here he cited the hellocopter, a type of plane which can land vertically anywhere, proved in a test flight two years ago when one flew about inside Berlin's Sportspalast, Developments such as these, when they have been perfected, will "revolutionize aerial warfare," he declared...
...anywhere (TIME, May 6). Nevertheless, the Senate's military appropriations chairman Elmer Thomas had to be shown. If doubting Thomas was naive enough to expect the War Department to endanger its $15,000,000 investment in Garands, he was soon disillusioned. Reluctantly, under conditions which prohibited any positive test, the Army last week pitted six Garands (fired in relays so that no single gun took the gaff) against two of Melvyn Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatics...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
Owing to the combined reasons of illness and a rush of business caused by the war, the New York Rugby Club was unable to get away to meet the rugby fifteen on Saturday. This was to be the decisive test to the Crimson's claim to the throne in the Eastern Rugby Union. Unfortunately it will be impossible to play the game at a latter date...