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...long ago engineers made smoke in the Holland vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river to test the all-important ventilating system. The announced result: complete success (TIME, March 28). But last week, Chairman John F. O'Rourke of a special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation begged to differ. He announced that the committee had given "serious study and conference to this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest...
...civilization of the Labour party went a step further with the marriage of the daughter of the labor leader, J. H. Thomas, which was a test of the Labor Party. They met it magnificently. The editor of "Tailor and Cutter" proclaimed that the guests at the wedding were sartorially unassailable. Not only did they wear coats and neckties, they wore cutaways and cravais. The editor was tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held...
Other polo enthusiasts will have an opportunity to test their skill at Mr. Robert Shaw's estate at Newton Centre, which he has kindly allowed the University to use for this purpose. For the horses used there Mr. Ayer's stable will be used. These practices will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...trial judge, which the appellate tribunal is not at liberty to correct. Mr. Frankfurter has nothing to say about the interesting ruling of the Supreme Court that it is permissible to question a man about unconventional and unpopular political opinions that he may hold in order to test for the jury his credibility as a witness in his own behalf when he is on trial for murder...
...optional choice which the Department offers to those men in this year's graduating class is an opportunity for a practical test of the system. The results of the general oral examination as compared with those of the written examinations in the subjects of concentration, that is--with the former plan, should indicate which type of inquiry produces the more satisfactory evidence that a man coming up for his degree is equipped in his field. The exact influence of the tutors perforce must remain to be proved as far as this department is concerned...