Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trophy-littered office in the hills above Managua, jowly little Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, since 1937 Dictator-President of Nicaragua, smiled a crooked smile. "I understand the opposition is boasting of its Red Cross arrangements for election day and after. If they plan to test me, I advise them to have plenty of Red Crosses." Armed with wisecracks and 5,000 loyal, U.S. Marine-trained soldiers of the Guardia, Tacho was ready for anything...
...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
Last week, a University of California researcher reported that he had discovered a new blood test for pregnancy. Dr. Ernest W. Page, an obstetrics professor, claimed that his new test had three important advantages: 1) it is faster; 2) it can determine the date of conception within a five-day margin of error, thus forecasting more accurately when the baby will be born; and 3) it provides a continuous check throughout pregnancy on whether the fetus is still alive...
...fourth week of pregnancy, Page's test takes 18 hours; after 16 weeks, it takes only 15 minutes. In trials on 52 women, he says the test has thus far failed only once...
President Conant's annual report for 1946 may be a trial balloon sent up to test public reaction to federal aid for the private colleges. It has been construed as the first word of surrender sent up from the proud fortress of the endowed colleges, calling for outside aid in the training of future generations of professional men. Harvard's president demonstrates forthright honesty when he affirms that the ranks of the professions must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel...