Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent might be obliged to vote with the leadership. If it doesn't become an out-and-out party test I think Lilienthal will get through...
...Herbert Huebener Beck of Lancaster, Pa. is a man who can take an active interest at the drop of an oriole's egg, a pine cone or a test tube. At 71 he is president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, belongs to the American Chemical Society, the American Ornithologists Union and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. He is also custodian of the Audubon Society's sanctuary for bald eagles on Mount Johnson Island in the lower Susquehanna River...
...armed forces of both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army's midwinter tests of men and machines in 60°-below-zero weather in Alaska and in the Aleutians this year also have had Canadian observers on hand...
...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
Strongest Bulldog opposition is expected to develop in the hurdles, pole-vault, mile and two mile, and dash. Although tomorrow's meet is the first large-scale test of the season for the Blue, some Elis, notably Cook and Finley in the hurdles, and Brown in the pole-vault, have been competing with good success in the various "name" carnivals this winter...