We used a magnifying glass and made several tests."
She tests the flowers with her tongue; she selects a spot that will yield a good return.
The absence of these exact tests accounts, I think, for the character of the profession, as no other explanation does.
Truth to the scientific mind is something provisional, a hypothesis that for the present moment best conforms to the recognized tests.
Actual tests, long continued under very severe conditions, have shown that the construction is right, and fulfils the most sanguine expectations."
In this sector, and only in this sector, the tests of the news are sufficiently exact to make the charges of perversion or suppression more than a partisan judgment.
"Naturally I was much impressed by what I saw, and, after I had made certain tests which convinced me that the stones in the steel box were diamonds, I paid over the money as I had promised.
He must agree to repay the loan in goods of the same kind and quality as those received, a contract most difficult to execute, and giving occasion to costly tests and countless disagreements.
This once accomplished, tests can be made with sounds of different kinds, different pitch, and different volume, varying the distance, the instruments, and the vowel when the articulate sounds are reached.
The responsibility was transferred from the educator to the pupil because the material did not have to meet specific tests; it did not have to be shown that it fulfilled any particular need or served any specific end.