Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real test of the Crimson Freshmen will come Tuesday night when they face off against Brown before the regular varsity scrap at the Arena...
...office of President of the United States is one of moral leadership, and the President can often strengthen the psychological sinews and confidence of the nation by the use of "glittering generalities" which would not stand the test of critical dismemberment...
Victorious in their only trial so far--a 46-29 win over a spotty M.I.T. team--the locals will be getting their first major test. Strength is pretty well established in several events, for both Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris turned in either double wins or a win and a vital medley job against the Engineers, but there are several weakerslots in the lineup...
...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
...Bernard's nerve was famous. While still at Oxford, he inhaled carbon monoxide to test its effect on the body and made notes of his sensations (he found them unpleasant). Once he climbed down a manhole in London's Redcross Street to check on gas that had caused a workman's death. When he accidentally swallowed a culture of meningitis germs in a hospital laboratory, he reported: "I just carried...