Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education...
...This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of the last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 350 East 22nd Street...
...Kentucky Derby most nearly approaches the Epsom Derby as a spectacle, the Belmont Stakes, run at 1½miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...
...areas receiving the long (red) and the short (purple and violet) light waves. I then knew what had happened, and my only thought now was to get home before greater consequences followed. I reached home with no greater annoyance than that occasioned by the fluttering play of colors. "A test of self control faced me, for I must tell my wife the dire possibilities that faced me. We went over the situation tearfully, and my beloved wife assured me, come what may, she would stand by me, and as events proved, she was the greatest comforter God ever gave...
...smoke from cigarets containing the new hygroscopic agent under the eyelid of a rabbit. To President McKitterick's delight, it produced less swelling than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about the effects of smoking, anyway...