Word: tested
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Britain, steadily removing her troops from Greece, gave the State Department renewed notice of her determination to get the rest (about 5,000) out by year's end. Britain meant to test how far, in men as well as in dollars and supplies, the U.S. was willing to go in Europe...
...have to have a sensitivity test," a soothing voice explained...
Away from Home. To test this theory, Yeagley trained hundreds of pigeons to return to their home roosts at State College, Pennsylvania. When they were thoroughly indoctrinated, he took them to a part of Nebraska where the lines representing the earth's magnetism happen to cross the parallels of latitude at the same angle as at State College. When he released the pigeons to the east of this "false home," they headed away from their Pennsylvania home. Thrown off their course by their navigating instruments, the pigeons all flew west. Professor Yeagley believes his experiment proves that pigeons...
...drug for an old disease was announced by Dr. I. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College. Dr. Huddleson, one of the world's leading authorities on undulant fever (TIME, Nov. 18), had tried sulfadiazine against the disease. The drug killed undulant fever bacteria in a test-tube but did not work in most patients. The doctor decided that inactive antibodies in the patients' blood somehow neutralized the drug. To make the drug work, perhaps the patient needed a supply of active antibodies. Dr. Huddleson gave his patients transfusions of whole blood containing active antibodies, then administered sulfadiazine...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...