Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pained by TIME'S flat betrayal of a lovely girl [TIME, April 8]. As author of Paulette Goddard's first screen test and as the fortunate producer of several of her pictures since, I am in a position to assure you that we have never felt it necessary to call in the Blimp Section of the Make-up Department...
...approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...Ocean Test...
...broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...
...harbor of grimy Liverpool, swept by racing tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier...