Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...long found the most companionable, was putting terrific pressure on him to throw in with them, and there were plenty of signs that he soon might. Little Caesar sent a birthday wire to the Berlin Big Shot expressing "firm confidence that the German people will victoriously stand the test to which they have been subjected." He mobilized his entire Navy, and sent six battleships, 19 cruisers and about 75 destroyers into the Aegean Sea conveniently close to Salonika. His submarine fleet, estimated at 135 (the largest of any country in the world), went to the midMediterranean and lower Adriatic. Rejected...
...suspicion that the fair-haired Chairman of the Lowell House Committee might intend to swim up the Charles to Wellesley, Coach Hal Ulen, of the swimming team, was contacted. "To the best of my knowledge," the mentor declared, "no one by the name of Lyford has passed his swimming test. Since everyone must swim two lengths of the pool in order to graduate, this young man had better report for special instruction...
...every band has to know, and that almost every band has to have a "special" arrangement of is "Stardust." Since the palmy days of the late 20's when it was written, this song has defied any attempt to kill its popularity. Carmen Lombardo has whispered it (the acid test), Paul Whiteman concertized it and Benny Goodman swung it--but it still rates as the most requested standard number in any dance band's repertoire. In this day and age when the very best and worst songs are past numbers inside of three months, this is an amazing record...
According to Coach Mikkola it will be impossible to judge the true potentialities of the team until after the Dartmouth meet, for the team will not be at full strength nor will it have been given a real test before that time...
...weather has slowed up training so much for the three teams that it was deemed inadvisable to test the squads fully at this early stage. Because it is to be a practice meet, no score will be kept, and the number of entries in any one event will not be seriously limited...