Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly were the negatives dry when the motion pictures of Test Baker at Bikini were rushed to Paris' Paramount Theater. But peace conferees were too busy to bother with the atom bomb. Some 150 delegates saw the film-but they were minor functionaries and military attach...
...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...Friendly Geiger Counter. Watchdog of the atomic age will be the Geiger counter, which registers even feeble radiation. Public-health officials may learn to carry them. Soldiers and diplomats, too, may find use for Geiger counters. When the Russians master atomic energy and explode their first test bomb in darkest Siberia, its radioactive by-products will sweep around the world in the upper atmosphere. Geiger counters will announce the news to every foreign office...
Most of the "phonies" and "junketeers" went home after the first test. Generally they were not the newsmen who had put it on the line during the war, and had won a respect in the armed services that they had never had before. Veteran correspondents were not the ones who brazenly toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen...
Died. Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, 74, child specialist, inventor of famed "Kilmer Test" for spotting drunken drivers by examining heart action, breathing, equilibrium and handwriting; of heart disease; in Rockville Centre...