Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acid Test. In Durham, England, Walter Richards, onetime BBC broadcaster on Crime Does Not Pay, drew a three-year sentence for shopbreaking...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. MT. McKINLEY OFF BIKINI--Vice Adm. W.H.P. Blandy today pronounced the Queen Day rehearsal of the atomic bomb test a success despite a series of attending mishaps, and sent a fleet of small boats into Bikini Lagoon for a full-dress radiological safety exercise involving several hundred...
With the increased responsibility of power, according to Professor Selekman, "the mature labor leader confronts one essential test for every policy he frames: does it enable him to meet simultaneously the requirements both of the dynamic protest movement for which he speaks and of the stable, complex administration which he must serve...
Next to Koch. The biggest news last week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...
...Manhattan, W.N.U. executives said that the Florida weeklies would be guinea pigs in an experiment designed 1) to test reader reaction to W.N.U.'s 100-odd canned features (comics, news pictures, fiction, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, patterns, editorials, etc.); 2) to show U.S. country editors how to put out better, more profitable papers. But expansive John H. Perry said he had even bigger plans: a nationwide system of state newspaper chains...