Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimate Test...
...ultimate test of the character of an individual or an institution or a government is: Can it stand being laughed at? Hitler couldn't, nor Mussolini. It is doubtful if Stalin could long survive under a system which permitted Capp and his ilk to have their...
...others took the stand; they said much the same thing. There was practical, slight Ernst Brennscheidt, a civilian government employee who might have been working in Berlin today if he had not been sent to Sachsenhausen to test army shoes. His methods were simple. For 14 hours a day, beating them when they dropped, he had marched prison inmates carrying 50-lb. sandbags around & around a half-mile track until the shoes wore out. Then he knew which shoes were faulty...
...accuse the Hitler system," cried Sachsenhausen's Dr. Heinz Baumkoetter. (He used to pour burning phosphorus on his patients, so that afterwards he could test the efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton...
...promising new weapon against tuberculosis-an antibiotic called chloromycetin-is reported in Science this week. Discovered in a sample of Venezuelan soil by Yale's Botanist Paul R. Burkholder, and isolated by Parke, Davis & Co. chemists, the drug has performed brilliantly (in the test tube) against the bacteria of tuberculosis, undulant fever and a variety of other tough germs...