Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December FORTUNE and went on view in a Manhattan gallery. The closest thing to nature in his blast pictures was an occasional circle (representing portholes) which he included for the sake of contrast "as you would show the whiteness of a wall by putting a thumbprint on it." His Test Able was a pat, flat imitation of chaos...
...small group of physicists gathered in the squash court for the final test. Partly shrouded in balloon cloth,* the pile squatted black and menacing. Within it, all knew or hoped, a monstrous giant sat chained. Control rods plated with cadmium (which readily absorbs neutrons) had been thrust into holes in the graphite. When the control rods were removed, Fermi had calculated, the chain reaction would start spontaneously, and the giant would be free...
Into the Unknown. Fermi ran the test. At 9:54 a.m. he gave an order. A whining motor withdrew the automatic control rod. The Geiger counters on the instrument panel clicked a little faster; a pen drew a slightly higher curve on a strip of paper...
...site, threatened to come in as a competitor. Worried Foley's then sold for $4,300,000. (Lazarus also got an option on another site tagged at $1,250,000, talked Woolworth's into buying it for $3,000,000.) With Foley's he plans to test his newest theory that department stores must mechanize or operating costs will zoom when the current abnormal volume falls...
...test, known as the Kuder Preference Record, was given near for the first time to a large body of students for purely experimental purposes, and its results will be examined for possible bearing on the fields of concentration chosen by incoming men. Stressing the danger that its results may be overestimated by the freshmen who took it, Henry S. Dyer '27, Director of the Office of Tests, pointed out that the test was given primarily to obtain data for future work, and that its importance to the individual student is only incidental at this time. Rusults of the test will...