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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, having warned Calcuttans that next time he would fast to death if they did not behave, Gandhi turned his pacifying powers to a far more difficult test. He headed for the Punjab, scene of the bloodiest communal killings of all India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Flowers for the Empress | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...test U.S. public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Troops to Greece? | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Murray Bay, Quebec, where he is vacationing, Ohio's solemn Bob Taft got ready for his test swing through the Far West in mid-September, a serious undertaking in which Scripps-Howard's H. M. Talburt saw some humorous overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: In the Big Tent | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...plutonium pile has been used only for research, where it has been extremely useful: "The fast reactor gives a more intense source of fast neutrons than physicists heretofore have been able to obtain, except during the brief time of the test of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Taming the Atom | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Test Tube Frolics. So-called scientific fiction of this sort is not the private property of pulps and comics. As Author Bailey shows in this survey of the literary imagination frolicking among test tubes and cam shafts, Tarzan, Superman and even Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle are novices and newcomers in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Science & Moonshine | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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