Word: tests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opened his mouth this morning. Says he, "the examination was obviously designed to test, not understanding of the reading, but whether one had done the reading." Far better would it have been if the mouth of Ass No. 2 had been so stuffed with hay that no noise could have issued thence, for he accomplished nothing more than the admission; that he is one of that small, but ever present group who pass examinations through an understanding of reading they have never done...
...bold experiment in giant aircraft, the Inflexible had a successful test flight at the Royal Air Force airdrome at Martlesham Heath, some 75 miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
...this system Coach E. J. Brown '96 is following the same plan of action he did last spring, seeking to put his charges to a test under racing conditions. On next Tuesday, it is expected, he will switch the boatings. It is likely now that he will hold all of the candidates, shifting the order so that the more promising candidates will be in three boats instead of scattered, as now is the case...
...fundamental are these researches that during the War and the aftermath, when all of Russia existed on starvation rations, Pavlov's laboratory continued to function as in times of peace. There was no bread to eat, but there were test tubes, metronomes, platinum wires, and as Pavlov remarked gratefully "always plenty of paper and pencils to write down experiments...
Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition. 7. Farm relief. 8. Reorganization of the Government. 9. Foreign policy...