Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...truth, as a certain Harvard professor is wont to exclaim, probably lies somewhere in between. Both Mr. Conant and Mr. Williams place great stress on the individual as the proper unit to deal with--and if this test is adopted, then clearly the answer is not, either work or cash scholarships, but both. Some individuals undeniably benefit by the work experience, while others find it too heavy a drain on their energies. There are enough of each variety here to make it practical for Harvard to combine the two types of scholarships. Mr. Conant, by lending his sanction...
...record was time and found to take three minutes for one complete playing and changing, which means that it would take fifty hours for the one thousand playings that the needle is advertised to do without harming the record. Notice that this is a very favorable test from the standpoint of RCA, since if the record would wear at all, it should wear down to the shape of the needle (it's supposed to fit at the outset.) A more strenuous test would be to use the needle on different records for a thousand times...
When played on a fresh record, the needle's tone was not too good, the high frequencies being very fuzzy. In other words, the needle (from one case--not too good a test, it's true) seems to be good for only two hundred sides--and that at dire risk to your records. Either the needle is bad, the record surface poor--or quite possibly both. Cactus needles look like a far safer...
...primary news. At Senator Walter George's suggestion, John Garner avowed his willingness to enter the primary. New Deal Governor E. D. Rivers, counted to swing his hand-picked delegates for Roosevelt, stayed in his shell. If he did call a primary, results would furnish the best Southern test of New Deal v. Old Deal Democrats...
Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail...