Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlow's statement that the team will start to improve rapidly after its narrow escape against the Tigers is not hard to understand. His Varsity squad has now passed its strongest early season test, and should profit considerably by its mistakes against the Orange and Black...
...John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
After eight years Mexicans were fed up with Pemex, the Government corporation that runs the oil industry. Even in the capital it was hard to get high-test gas, and when a man drove into the country he had to carry tins of the stuff or he might never get back. The gas he got often clogged feedlines, stalled...
From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
...medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour plowing, strip planting, terracing. For run-down soils, they recommended cover crops and suitable fertilizers. They would survey and test a whole district, then tell farmers how to make soil more productive...