Word: tested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis, the McDonell Aircraft Corp. put the world's first ramjet helicopter* through its paces for the U.S. Air Force. In test flights, the 310-lb. "flying bike" readily lifted an additional 300 Ibs. and attained a speed of 50 m.p.h. To the Air Force, it looked like just the thing for short-range observation work, artillery spotting and courier service. ¶ At San Diego, Consolidated Vultee's experimental "flying auto" made...
...aggressors," a term in which they include the beaten and disintegrating Qualunquists (Common Man Front) and the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is frankly fascist but small and weak. Actually the Communist target was the pro-Western, Christian Democratic Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist objective was to test the efficiency and self-control of the Government police...
...office windows of the luckless Qualunquists, stacks of rightist newspapers made huge bonfires, and Red orators cursed the Government for not silencing "the fascist press." In Naples the Communists tried to raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril of a civil...
Simultaneously, William J. Richard, Jr. '49, who piloted the organization through its test at the College, declared that the vote is really "a formalization of the part Harvard has played all along...
Today the College representatives in the sixty-fourth Yale game will test the turf in the Bowl at 2:15 o'clock. Terse printed instructions road in part: "Nine o'clock, train leaves South Station; 12:15, lunch (in New Haven); 12:35, taping; 2:15, practice in Yale Bowl; 4:45, Busses leave for Choate school at Wallingford; 7:30, squad meeting...