Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's touch-off with Rutgers puts the squad to the toughest test of the season excepting the Yale meet, and the Scarlet outfit should prove as rough a customer in the water as they did this fall on the gridiron...
...administers Registrations, College Boards, and Graduate Record Examinations as well as Hours and Finals and is often called in when a remote college wants to test local entrance candidates...
Ending the first court test of a new Massachusetts law under which the book itself-not the bookseller of publisher--goes on trial, the judge's ruling put the story of a gay beauty of England's restoration back on the bookstands...
Laid in Cuba in 1900, Yellow Jack shows a frustrated and not yet famous Walter Reed, and the doctors under him, deciding rather desperately to test out Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay's long-held theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
Right Combination. If the body could be stimulated to produce more histamine, Wirtschafter reasoned, many ailments due to constriction or blocking of blood vessels might be easily cured. In the test tube, histamine can be made by combining two well-known substances-vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and an amino acid called histidine. Would it work in the body? First on guinea pigs and then on his patients, Wirtschafter tried intravenous injections of vitamin C, followed by intramuscular injection of a histidine solution. Sure enough, it worked: blood tests showed an increase in histamine...