Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from still another source came a big hint that it was high time the President revealed more of what has been decided. Old (78) Arthur Capper, Senator from Kansas since 1918, is famed as the original Congressman who could keep both ears on the ground at once. Always a litmus-paper test of public opinion, Senator Capper now said, in a tone of irritation rare with him: "Let us have some more information −truth if you want to call it that about what was agreed on at Moscow and Teheran...
...litmus paper test for Mort...