Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twentieth as big, turns out bigger sports crowds than the U.S. All last week, Australian radios blared the latest news of the play for "The Ashes,"* the traditional cricket matches with England. Before 80,000 noisy fans in Sydney, down went England again in the second of the five test matches. (In London, a man who feared that England was not taking its defeat with proper "lightness of heart" wrote the Daily Telegraph: "Some will say that it is one of our national characteristics to appear to take our battles less seriously than our test matches. We are mechanizing...
Carville has had excellent results with three sulfa drugs: Promin, Diasone and Promizole (streptomycin, now under test, also looks promising). Last year the leprosarium discharged 37 patients, this year it will discharge 40 or more. Said its medical chief, Dr. Guy H. Faget: "The sulfones have stopped even the most hopeless cases in their tracks...
Roskin proceeded to test the serum of cancerous rabbits, then of human patients, found to his delight that when properly prepared, it was highly toxic to paramecia. No other serum, not even that from patients with benign tumors, produced the same effect. The paramecia-killing power of serum from animals with implanted cancer varied with the type of cancer. A cancer can sometimes be detected two days after it is implanted, before any visible tumor has developed...
...test is not infallible. But on the basis of tests with serum from 75 patients, Roskin thinks his method shows great promise, not only of detecting cancer early, but of identifying cancer type...
...subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...