Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1902, when the late Willie Gocher plunged fully clad into the surf to test an ancient statute that forbade day light bathing as immoral, had there been such a commotion on a Sydney beach...
...captain and Freshman veteran, Huna Rosenfeld, and John Coagan should lead the field for the College harriers. The other entries are Ray Brown, Hal May, Peter Morgan, and Charles Worth. Cogan has been coming up fast in recent meets and may give his teammates Gurley and Rosenfeld quite a test...
...ascribed to the almost total disappearance of the labor vote in America, a vote which in the Roosevelt era proved decisive time and time again. Men like Guffey and Voorhis, with one hundred per cent labor records, went down to defeat, while the CIO PAC in its initial test without Roosevelt's support railed to deliver on almost every candidate who claimed its support...
...pornography, which, to the fertile minds of the Brahmins of the time, covered the field fairly well. With enthusiasm that would be suspected in other endeavors, Bostonians of excellent name and irreproachable connections condoned, even abetted book-burning, Carrie-Nation antics, even the use of Harvard undergraduates to test the carnal tendencies of certain girlies of hesitant virtue in the Back...
...once by the dyspeptic H. L. Mencken (who, incidentally, got valuable publicity for the infant Mercury) and once by the Society's own board of directors, who retreated in horror as Chase inveigled, almost hounded a book seller into trafficking in dubious literature so that Chase might have his test case. At this point Professor Julian Coolidge led a group of prominent Bostonians out of the Society that had once claimed President Eliot as a vice-president...