Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imperial Palace, General Tanaka barked another set of orders in the name of a greater Japan. Once again a roar of motors responded and the old commander's new squadron, a fleet of seven jaunty green motorized pedicabs, went putt-putting down the macadam road on their test flight. They have the name "Qu' avec"-a Japanese notion of the way a Frenchman might say "With whom?" "I call them 'Qu' avec,'" simpered Tanaka, "to indicate that boy & girl might get together pleasantly in pedicab...
Weeding out applicants by a homemade aptitude test, Miss Efron started with a class of 20, including six practicing newsmen. At first, teacher and class fought in French on philosophical terrain: What is truth? What is objectivity? When Miss Efron tried to explain the difference between opinion and fact, gossip and news, her students replied that she was "stifling the Haitian soul." Later, "Editor" Efron sent her reporters scurrying out on assignments. Says she proudly:"They got kicked out of the best places in town...
Because nylon is stronger than cotton or linen and does not rot, Brownell & Co., Inc. of Moodus, Conn, started making nylon fish nets. To test their new product, Brownell made composite gill nets three miles long with alternate sections of nylon, cotton and linen. When the nets were tried in the Great Lakes, the nylon sections caught twelve times as many fish as the others...
...Test No. 1. St. Laurent's first big test in public life came in 1944 when his own French Quebec lined up against conscription for overseas service. Although most politicians thought he was committing political suicide, St. Laurent came out for the draft. In the next election, he astounded everybody by posting a record majority in his Quebec riding (Quebec East, once held by Laurier...
This week, Ted strode on to the stadium court to test his new-found relaxation against the most relaxed man in big-time tennis: Pancho Gonzales, who had hammered Frankie Parker out of the tournament with his customary booming serve. On Labor Day, in a match marked by no great relaxation on either side, Pancho Gonzales beat Ted Schroeder for his second U.S. singles championship...