Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. "For several months," Hedda casually announced urbi et orbi one day last spring, "I have been plugging a young singer named Doris Day, who, I believed, had fine talent. . . . Mike Curtiz tested her for the lead in Romance in High C. She'd never been before a camera previously, but Mike told me her test was sensational. Even so, the studio wanted a star name-Mary Martin, Lauren Bacall, or Ginny Simms-for the role, but Mike held out for Doris...
...plea from President Truman to businessmen. He asked industrialists to withhold immediate increases in the price of coal and in the price of steel, "until the actual increases in costs are determined. It is only reasonable," said he, "to ask coal and steel producers to wait until a fair test has been made...
There was nothing surprising about the issue's success. Up to the first $2,540,000,000, the Bank's bonds will, in effect, be guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury. They are, therefore, as safe as U.S. bonds-and they bring more interest. The real test will come when private investors are asked to subscribe beyond this guarantee point. Nonetheless, the success of the first issue was heartening to McCloy, who had found only three months ago that "nobody was interested in our securities. We talked to many an insurance company and bank-and the unanimous answer...
...house 1) needed it for himself, or 2) had sold it to someone who needed a place to live. Last week, as both tenants and landlords consulted their lawyers, the chances were that the exact size of the co-op loophole would have to be determined by a test case* in court...
Rousseau: "I was sure of that. It is my test of character. There you have the despotic instinct of men. They do not like cats because the cat is free, and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals...