Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedford Bennett who, knowing that a fate like the U. S. ex-President's probably awaits him at Canada's next general election this year, has excitedly improvised a species of New Deal (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley would win enough votes to carry on as Hooverish Mr. Bennett hopes...
...most common medical procedures today is the skin test by means of which doctors tell whether a person is sensitive to ragweed, strawberries, horsehair, chicken feathers, scarlet fever, diphtheria or any other known allergen. The physician scrapes off a tiny area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used...
...views had been aired, the Convention got around to voting on the report. Unanimously adopted was a slick compromise, by which the Social Action Commission is authorized to distribute the report to such churches as wish to study it. By no means is it to be made a test for Baptist "fellowship or service...
After three years of experiment, Mr. Cummins appeared fortnight ago in Manhattan with the first Diesel engine exclusively designed for automobiles. This time he used a new Auburn chassis for his test. His engine has six cylinders, 100 h. p., weighs only 80 lb. more than the 8-cylinder Lycoming gasoline engine it replaced. It can turn 3,000 r. p. m., make 90 m. p. h. with a gear ratio slightly above normal. It weighs only 8 lb. per h. p., would cost some 10% more than a gasoline engine to put into mass production. It has no spark...
...regard this effort on my part as an excellent opportunity to test out in clean-cut fashion the much-mooted question of the constitutionality of the securities acts and believe, with President Roosevelt himself, that there is very serious doubt as to their legality...