Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urged test-weary students to deposit their old volumes in dining hall receptacles for use in PBH's 25-cent-a-term loan service...
From his neat, gold-rimmed spectacles, reassuring pipe, and dignified classroom smile, Eugene DuBois is easily spotted as a professor. It is harder to guess that he is an outstanding physiologist whose researches made possible medicine's standard basal metabolism test...
...body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...
Last week a verruga expert, Dr. T. S. Battistini of the Peruvian Hygienic Institute, thought he had a promising lead: the sandfly is extremely vulnerable to DDT. When the rainy season ends in June, Peru will launch an intensive DDT attack in a test area. It will be none too soon; verruga, long unknown outside of Peru, seems to be spreading. Since 1939 outbreaks have been reported in Colombia and Ecuador...
...many men could pass the test? Said Wood: Jesus; Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk; Franklin Roosevelt; and a "lot of quite humble persons whom no one knows...