Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Griffith's explanation: pitressin may stimulate the body to produce an antihormone which neutralizes the hormone responsible for urine suppression and high blood pressure. As a test, he gave pitressin injections to 63 patients for several months. Result: half his patients improved; in some, blood pressure dropped to normal, stayed normal after injections stopped...
...potatoes]. The Department has one man in a top executive job who can do nothing but buy them. We set a goal for 1946 of 378,000,000 bushels. It looks now as though the crop will be 445,000,000 bushels. How's that for a test of the ability of the Department to control production...
...first test rangy, graceful Jackie Robinson had to pass was a session at the plate in spring training. On the mound were some fastball pitchers, some of them Southerners. There was a feeling that one of them might try "spinning his cap" (pitching at his head). They didn't, but Jackie Robinson was blazing the way for other Negro ballplayers and he Was jittery...
...flunked the batting test. Afield he showed a minor talent, too. His aim was erratic and he had to be moved from shortstop to second base for the easier peg to first. All he seemed to have was dazzling speed on the bases and a modest, earnest attitude that quickly put him in solid with his white Montreal teammates...
...Diphtheria. In Gateshead, England, which has had severe diphtheria epidemics (2,911 cases, 147 deaths) during the past ten years, Dr. Richard J. Dodds tried heavy doses of penicillin (besides diphtheria antitoxin) on a test group of 13 hard-hit patients. One died, but the rest recovered more rapidly and with fewer complications than patients who got only antitoxin...