Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games Il Duce threw two armies, totaling 100,000 men, into the barren rocky country between Bologna and Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find...
...other years, to determine Clara's sex, a surgeon would have been obliged to cut her open and a histologist would have had to study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced...
...backstretch of the racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo on Long Island in the test games for the East-West matches). Notably absent was Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, who was recuperating from pneumonia on Long Island...
...with Edgar Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began to make a fortune in England manufacturing his Camels, Pups and Dolphins. After the War he dissolved his airplane company and formed a new company named for his longtime test pilot, Harry Hawker, who first tried and failed to fly the Atlantic in 1919. Today Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. makes half the planes used by the British Royal Air Force...
...been rated as equal to that of a "superior adult." Six months later her elders found her qualified, on paper, to teach in a Los Angeles high school. At 12 she scored an I. Q. of 214, highest ever recorded in the U. S. in a Binet-Simon test. That same year she went to Barnard College, wrote six Vanity Fair articles which were later published in book form as The Younger Generation...