Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first real test of federal political sentiment since the Dominion elections of June 1945, the Liberal Party got a hard kick in the pants...
...Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...
Vonderlehr and Heller think that a blood test should be a routine part of every hospital, school, insurance and industrial physical examination. "Naturally," they note, "some people would find themselves receiving a blood test several times a year - and [for] some people this would be a very excellent idea...
...treatment. But doctors knew only one effective remedy: removing the infected hair, either by X ray or by pulling. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service had cheering news: scalping, they reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be unnecessary. In a wide test in Hagerstown, Md. they had discovered that an ointment rubbed on the head can cure scalp ringworm...
...accepted Council after Council at face value without realizing that this group unilaterally has assumed existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy areas within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...